Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

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

The cure for grief is motion.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

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

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no proof of greatness.

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

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

We work to become not to acquire.

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.

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.

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

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

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

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

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

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

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

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

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

Victory - a matter of staying power.