Elbert Hubbard
We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.Collection: Enemy
All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.Collection: Feelings
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.Collection: Men
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.Collection: Loneliness
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.Collection: Success
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.Collection: Funny
Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.Collection: Men
Art is nothing; it's a way.Collection: Art
Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frownCollection: Morality
Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.Collection: Struggle
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.Collection: Advice
Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.Collection: Beauty
When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.Collection: Dark
No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.Collection: Spiritual
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.Collection: Punishment
Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?Collection: Respect
When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.Collection: Believe
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.Collection: Funny
Allow motion to equal emotion.Collection: Emotional
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.Collection: Inspirational
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of othersCollection: Wrath
A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.Collection: Courage
Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.Collection: Success
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.Collection: Powerful
Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.Collection: Faith
A good front is half the battle in love or war.Collection: Love
The past is one evil less and one memory more.Collection: Memories
An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes rightCollection: Decision
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.Collection: Tin Cans
The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.Collection: People
Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.Collection: Lying
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.Collection: Dream
If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.Collection: Way
History: a collection of epitaphs.Collection: History
Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.Collection: Funny
Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably betterCollection: Doe
Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.Collection: Happiness
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.Collection: Friendship
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.Collection: Religious
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.Collection: Enemy
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.Collection: Inspirational
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.Collection: Men
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.Collection: Punishment
The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.Collection: Love You
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.Collection: Love
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.Collection: Heart
Every knock is a boost.Collection: Life
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.Collection: History