Elbert Hubbard Quotations

"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour."

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive."

"Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber."

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

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

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

"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?"

"If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive."

"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal."

"Live truth instead of professing it."

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

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

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."

"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."

"Responsibility is the price of freedom."

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

"The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success."

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

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

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

"To know when to be generous and when to be firm - this is wisdom."

"We are punished by our sins, not for them."

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

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."