Elbert Hubbard

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

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

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

“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.”

“This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”

“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.”

“A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.”

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.”

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

“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.”

“Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.”

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

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

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”

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

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

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

“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.”

“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”

“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”

“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”

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

“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.”

“Initiative is doing the right things without being told.”

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

“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.”

“Fear clogs; faith liberates.”

“The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.”

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.”

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

“The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.”

“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”

“The man who has no problems is out of the game.”

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

“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.”

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

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”

“Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”

“It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.”

“Live truth instead of professing it.”

“We are not punished for our sins, but by them.”

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

“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.”

“Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.”

“Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.”

“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”

“Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.”

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

“We are punished by our sins, not for them.”

“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”

“If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.”

“The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.”

“To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.”

“There is no devil but fear.”

“We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.”

“To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .”

“Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used.”

“Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.”

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”

“Life without absorbing occupation is hell.”

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

“Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.”

“A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”

“Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.”

“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”

“The thing we fear we bring to pass.”

“Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.”

“Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.”