Elbert Hubbard
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.Collection: Graduation
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.Collection: Morning
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.Collection: Success
The love we give away is the only love we keep.Collection: Love
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.Collection: Work
We work to become, not to acquire.Collection: Work
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.Collection: Death
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Friendship
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.Collection: Friendship
Live truth instead of professing it.Collection: Truth
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.Collection: Time
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.Collection: Faith
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.Collection: Wisdom
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.Collection: Thankful
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.Collection: Freedom
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.Collection: Marriage
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.Collection: Brainy
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.Collection: Work
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Patience
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.Collection: Art
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.Collection: Life
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Failure
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.Collection: Friendship
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.Collection: Hope
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.Collection: Friendship
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.Collection: Great
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.Collection: Great
Life in abundance comes only through great love.Collection: Great
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.Collection: Fear
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.Collection: Teacher
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.Collection: Success
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.Collection: Experience
We are punished by our sins, not for them.Collection: Religion
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.Collection: Strength
Art is not a thing; it is a way.Collection: Art
There is no failure except in no longer trying.Collection: Failure
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.Collection: Failure
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.Collection: Forgiveness
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.Collection: Forgiveness
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.Collection: Positive
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.Collection: Attitude
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.Collection: Teacher
Responsibility is the price of freedom.Collection: Freedom
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.Collection: Science
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.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.