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Elbert Hubbard

  • Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • Life in abundance comes only through great love... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffing of the vertebrae which causes them to be loyal, to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing - "carry a message to Garcia... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • The love we give away is the only love we keep.... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on "giving as good as they get."... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • 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 in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.... Elbert Hubbard {view}