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Elbert Hubbard quotes, quotations, sayings

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Every life is its own excuse for being.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
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
 1004    
God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
Elbert Green Hubbard
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Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Laughter is higher than all pain.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
Elbert Hubbard
 1004    


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