Elbert Hubbard Quotes (228 Quotes)



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

    The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

    One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.

    Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.




    Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

    When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that ... the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.


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


    There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

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

    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.

    An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment

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

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

    The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

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

    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.

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


    The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.


    The Great Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was n

    The business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell

    Life without absorbing occupation is hell - joy consists in forgetting life

    He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

    The average man plays to the gallery of his own self - esteem.

    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.

    A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women

    The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

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

    When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket

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

    If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

    Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

    Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

    No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

    A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.


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


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

    It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.

    Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

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

    Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. 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. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time w

    Optimism is a kind of heart stimulus, the digitalis of failure.


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