Elbert Hubbard
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.Collection: Inspirational
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.Collection: Happiness
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.Collection: Intelligent
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.Collection: Inspirational
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.Collection: Funny
To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.Collection: Mistake
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.Collection: Motivational
Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milkedCollection: Cows
The more one knows, the more one simplifies.Collection: Simplify
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.Collection: Success
Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.Collection: Wheels
If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.Collection: Loyalty
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.Collection: Lying
Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.Collection: Happiness
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.Collection: Inspiring
There is no failure except the failure of trying.Collection: Trying
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.Collection: Law
Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.Collection: Mind
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.Collection: Education
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.Collection: Death
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.Collection: Competition
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.Collection: Men
An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.Collection: Play
The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.Collection: Self Esteem
Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.Collection: Christian
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.Collection: Truth
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.Collection: Loyalty
The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.Collection: Inspirational
Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.Collection: Insult
Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.Collection: Service Culture
Conformists die, but heretics live forever.Collection: Forever
To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .Collection: Income
I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.Collection: Philosophy
The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.Collection: Trust
The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.Collection: World
It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.Collection: Strong
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow upCollection: Growing Up
No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.Collection: Men
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.Collection: Lying
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.Collection: Freedom
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.Collection: Happiness
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.Collection: Writing
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.Collection: Joy
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.Collection: Ideas
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.Collection: Atheism
Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.Collection: Inspirational
Nothing is permanent but change.Collection: Change
Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.Collection: Law
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.Collection: Atheism