59 result(s) for Elbert Hubbard Quotes.
"Truth, in its ultimate simplicity, is indistinguishable from falsehood."
"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience."
"Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best."
"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."
"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares."
"The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner."
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"To know when to be generous and when to be firm—that is wisdom."
"The friend is the man who knows you, and still loves you."
"God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas but for scars."
"To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom."
"Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not."
"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
"Art is not a thing, it is a way."
"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."
"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
"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."
"Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back."
"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."
"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 the goal."
"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."
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"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."
"Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it."
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contemptuous treatment without resentment."
"Life is just one damned thing after another."
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart."
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."
"A man is as good as he has to be and a woman is as bad as she dares."
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment."
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
"Responsibility is the price of freedom."
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
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"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
"The best way to get the last word is to apologize."
"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher."
"Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive."
"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."
"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do."
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
"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."
"If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live."
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive."
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
"Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence."
"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
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