Selected quotes · 30
№ 01
“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.”
Elbert HubbardAction
№ 02
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
Elbert HubbardFailure
№ 03
“Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”
Elbert HubbardFaith
№ 04
“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.”
Elbert HubbardCreativity
№ 05
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
Elbert HubbardLove
№ 06
“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”
Elbert HubbardFreedom
№ 07
“The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.”
Elbert HubbardSuccess
№ 08
“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.”
Elbert HubbardFailure
№ 09
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.”
Elbert HubbardCourage
№ 10
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
Elbert HubbardFriendship
№ 11
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
Elbert HubbardFreedom
№ 12
“Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.”
Elbert HubbardAction
№ 13
“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
Elbert HubbardFreedom
№ 14
“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.”
Elbert HubbardFriendship
№ 15
“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”
Elbert HubbardCreativity
№ 16
“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”
Elbert HubbardHappiness
№ 17
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”
Elbert HubbardWisdom
№ 18
“Responsibility is the price of freedom.”
Elbert HubbardFreedom
№ 19
“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”
Elbert HubbardFailure
№ 20
“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”
Elbert HubbardFriendship
№ 21
“God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.”
Elbert HubbardFaith
№ 22
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
Elbert HubbardCreativity
№ 23
“Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.”
Elbert HubbardCreativity
№ 24
“We are punished by our sins, not for them.”
Elbert HubbardWisdom
№ 25
“Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”
Elbert HubbardMindset
№ 26
“Live truth instead of professing it.”
Elbert HubbardJustice
№ 27
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
Elbert HubbardWisdom
№ 28
“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
Elbert HubbardFaith
№ 29
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”
Elbert HubbardMindset
№ 30
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
Elbert HubbardAction