Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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

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.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

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.

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

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

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

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

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

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

Fear clogs faith liberates.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

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.

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

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

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

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

Art is not a thing it is a way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

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

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

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.