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Elbert Hubbard Quotes About Friendship

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Elbert Hubbard Quotes About Life

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

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

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

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

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

More Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

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

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.

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

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

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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

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

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

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

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.

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

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

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

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

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

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

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

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

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

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

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

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.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

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

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

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