Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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Elbert Hubbard

Profession : Writer

Birth : June 19, 1856

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Elbert Hubbard

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Elbert Hubbard

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard