Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Enjoy our collection of famous Elbert Hubbard quotes. These famous quotes have been carried through time due to the wisdom and wit of the words. While many of these inspirational quotes and sayings were said many years ago you will find the words still apply today. Elbert Hubbard was an American Writer, who live from 1859 to 1915.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard

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

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.
Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.
Elbert Hubbard

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?
Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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 to your goal.
Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
Elbert Hubbard

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Elbert Hubbard

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

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

We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

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

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard, considered one of the Best Love Sayings

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

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

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

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.
Elbert Hubbard



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