Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
– Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
– Elbert Hubbard
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
– Elbert Hubbard
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
– Elbert Hubbard
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
– Elbert Hubbard
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
– Elbert Hubbard
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
– Elbert Hubbard
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
– Elbert Hubbard
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
– Elbert Hubbard
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
– Elbert Hubbard
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
– Elbert Hubbard
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
– Elbert Hubbard
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
– Elbert Hubbard
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
– Elbert Hubbard
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
– Elbert Hubbard
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
– Elbert Hubbard
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
– Elbert Hubbard
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
– Elbert Hubbard
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
– Elbert Hubbard
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
– Elbert Hubbard
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
– Elbert Hubbard
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 Hubbard
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
– Elbert Hubbard
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.
– Elbert Hubbard
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
– Elbert Hubbard
Live truth instead of professing it.
– Elbert Hubbard
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
– Elbert Hubbard
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
– Elbert Hubbard
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
– Elbert Hubbard
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.
– Elbert Hubbard
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
– Elbert Hubbard
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
– Elbert Hubbard
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
– Elbert Hubbard
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
– Elbert Hubbard
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
– Elbert Hubbard
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
– Elbert Hubbard
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
– Elbert Hubbard
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
– Elbert Hubbard
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
– Elbert Hubbard
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
– Elbert Hubbard
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
– Elbert Hubbard
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
– Elbert Hubbard
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 Hubbard
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
– Elbert Hubbard
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
– Elbert Hubbard
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
– Elbert Hubbard
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
– Elbert Hubbard
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 Hubbard
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
– Elbert Hubbard
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.
– Elbert Hubbard
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
– Elbert Hubbard
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
– Elbert Hubbard
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
– Elbert Hubbard
We work to become, not to acquire.
– Elbert Hubbard
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
– Elbert Hubbard
We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
– Elbert Hubbard
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
– Elbert Hubbard
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
– Elbert Hubbard
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
– Elbert Hubbard
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
– Elbert Hubbard
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
– Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
– Elbert Hubbard
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
– Elbert Hubbard
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
– Elbert Hubbard
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
– Elbert Hubbard
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
– Elbert Hubbard
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
– Elbert Hubbard
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
– Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
– Elbert Hubbard
Men are only as great as they are kind.
– Elbert Hubbard
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
– Elbert Hubbard
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.
– Elbert Hubbard
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
– Elbert Hubbard
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
– Elbert Hubbard
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 Hubbard
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
– Elbert Hubbard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
– Elbert Hubbard
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
– Elbert Hubbard
Fear clogs faith liberates.
– Elbert Hubbard
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.
– Elbert Hubbard
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
– Elbert Hubbard
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
– Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
– Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
