Quotes by Elbert Hubbard
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Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

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.

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

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

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

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

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

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

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

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.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

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

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

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

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

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

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.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

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

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

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

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.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

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

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.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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

Life is just one damned thing after another.