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.

alone


Elbert Hubbard

Art is not a thing it is a way.

art


Elbert Hubbard

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

art


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.

art


Elbert Hubbard

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

attitude


Elbert Hubbard

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

attitude


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.

business


Elbert Hubbard

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

business


Elbert Hubbard

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

death


Elbert Hubbard

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

death


Elbert Hubbard

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

experience


Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

failure


Elbert Hubbard

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

failure


Elbert Hubbard

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

failure


Elbert Hubbard

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

failure


Elbert Hubbard

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

failure


Elbert Hubbard

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

faith


Elbert Hubbard

Fear clogs faith liberates.

faith


Elbert Hubbard

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

fear


Elbert Hubbard

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

fear


Elbert Hubbard

Fear clogs faith liberates.

fear


Elbert Hubbard

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

forgiveness


Elbert Hubbard

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

forgiveness


Elbert Hubbard

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

friendship


Elbert Hubbard

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

friendship


Elbert Hubbard

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

friendship


Elbert Hubbard

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

friendship


Elbert Hubbard

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

friendship


Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

funny


Elbert Hubbard

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

god


Elbert Hubbard

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

god


Elbert Hubbard

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

god


Elbert Hubbard

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

good


Elbert Hubbard

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

good


Elbert Hubbard

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

good


Elbert Hubbard

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

good


Elbert Hubbard

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

graduation


Elbert Hubbard

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

great


Elbert Hubbard

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

great


Elbert Hubbard

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

great


Elbert Hubbard

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

great


Elbert Hubbard

Men are only as great as they are kind.

great


Elbert Hubbard

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

happiness


Elbert Hubbard

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

home


Elbert Hubbard

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

hope


Elbert Hubbard

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

hope


Elbert Hubbard

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

knowledge


Elbert Hubbard

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

life


Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

life


Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

life


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