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Elbert Hubbard Quotes

We work to become, not to acquire.
- Elbert Hubbard

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. 
- Elbert Hubbard

Positive anything is better than negative nothing
- Elbert Hubbard

Victory; a matter of staying power
- Elbert Hubbard

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary person.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)


He who doesn't understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)


The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard (The Note Book, 1927)

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)


Every man should have a college education in order to show him  how little the thing is really worth.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), American author, "A Message to Garcia"

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

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 the goal.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

The vintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that life is love, laughter, and work.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Art is not a thing; it is a way
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?  
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. 
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

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 (1856 - 1915)

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. 
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)