A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

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

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

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

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

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

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

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 Quote

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

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Fear clogs; faith liberates.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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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 Quote

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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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.
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
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Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Men are only as great as they are kind.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyhow.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

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

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

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

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

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

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

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

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

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

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

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

The thing we fear we bring to pass.
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

We work to become, not to acquire.
- Elbert Hubbard Quote

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