Elbert Hubbard Quotes (228 Quotes)

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

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.

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

An impulse toward ourselves through the heart of another

Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

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

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or good, but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage, and good will. I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected, as ready to say I do not know, if it be so, and to meet all men on an absolute equality, to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid. I wish others to live their lives, too - up to their highest, fullest, and best. To that end I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference, and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be radiant - to radiate life.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

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.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

The secret of success is this there is no secret of success.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Money never made a fool of anybody it only shows them up.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Happiness is a habit - cultivate it.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.