Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

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

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.

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

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

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

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

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

Play needs direction as well as work.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Every life is its own excuse for being.