Top 461 Quotes & Sayings by Elbert Hubbard - Page 2

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

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

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

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

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

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.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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

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

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

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

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.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

A goal without a plan is a dream.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

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

I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

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

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.

Success consists in the climb.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors