Elbert Hubbard quotes

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Life in abundance comes only through great love.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“We work to become, not to acquire.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“In order to have friends, you must first be one.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”

— Elbert Hubbard