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Elbert Hubbard [1859-1915] American

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Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company.

Failure, Friendship, Great, Success, Work, Art, Attitude, Faith, Forgiveness, Freedom, Good, Life, Men, Teacher, Alone, Best, Brainy, Business, Death, Fear, Funny, God, Graduation, Happiness, Home, Hope, Love, Marriage, Money, Morning, Motivational, Patience, Positive, Religion, Strength, Technology, Thankful, Time, Truth, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.	Funny, Life	101
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.	Positive	102
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.		103
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.	Morning	104
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.	Friendship	105
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.	Friendship	106
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.	Motivational, Work	107
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.	Failure, Hope, Success	108
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.		109
The love we give away is the only love we keep.	Love	110
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.	Attitude	111
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.	Attitude, Time	112
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.	Forgiveness	113
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.	Death	114
There is no failure except in no longer trying.	Failure	115
Live truth instead of professing it.	Truth	116
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.	Marriage	117
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.	Men, Technology, Work	118
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.	Wisdom	119
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	120
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.		121
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.	Freedom	122
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	123
We work to become, not to acquire.	Work	124
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.		125
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.	Best, Good, Work	126
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.	Good	201
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.	Money	202
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.		203
Responsibility is the price of freedom.	Freedom	204
Men are only as great as they are kind.	Great, Men	205
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.	God, Graduation	206
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.	Great	207
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.	Success	208
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.		209
Art is not a thing; it is a way.	Art	210
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.	Failure	211
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	212
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.	Success	213
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.		214
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.		215
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.	Thankful	216
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	217
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.		218
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.	Forgiveness	219
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.	Great	220
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.		221
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.	Home	222
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.		223
The man who has no problems is out of the game.		224
Life in abundance comes only through great love.	Life	225
In order to have friends, you must first be one.		226
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.	Happiness	301
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.	Teacher	302
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.	Brainy	303
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.		304
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.	Patience, Success	305
The thing we fear we bring to pass.	Fear	306
Initiative is doing the right things without being told.		307
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.		308
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.		309
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.		310
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.	Great	311
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.		312
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.		313
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.		314
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.		315
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.	Friendship	316
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.	Strength	317
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.		318
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.		319
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.	Failure	320
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	321
Fear clogs; faith liberates.	Faith	322
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.	Faith	323
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.	Teacher	324
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.		325
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.		326
We are punished by our sins, not for them.	Religion	401
An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.		402
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.		403
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.		404
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.		405
Life is just one damned thing after another.		406
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.		407
We are not punished for our sins, but by them.		408
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.		409
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.		410
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.		411
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.		412
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.		413
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.		414

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