Elbert Hubbard
American writer, publisher and founder of the Roycroft community, 1856-1915
65 quotes.
Quotes by Elbert Hubbard
- A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
- All the beautiful rewards of life come by indirection, and are the incidental results of simply doing our work up to our highest and best.
- Art is the beautiful way of doing things.
- Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
- But to slide, glide, drift, loll, dawdle, with no definite objective point in mind, is to arrive at the point of Nowhere and to have your craft lie hopelessly becalmed on Mud Flats.
- Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
- Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
- Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
- Do your work with a whole heart and you will succeed—there is so little competition!
- Don't make excuses — make good!
- Down in their hearts wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
- Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
- Folks who never do more than their paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
- Genius is fine, but if it comes to a show-down, gumption is better.
- God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
- Good Habits are mentors, guardian angels, and servants that regulate your sleep, your work, your thought.
- He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.
- Here was a lesson in economics. And economics is simply the science of business, and business is the science of human service.
- 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?
- I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
- If great joy has come to you, pass it along, and thus do you double it.
- If I love you I will surely work for you—in this way I reveal my love.
- If it is the repetition of thought, the cells holding that thought are exercised and trained, and finally they act automatically, and repeated thought becomes habit, and exercised habit becomes character--and character is the man.
- An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
- If you want work well done, select a busy man , the other kind has no time.
- If you work for a man, in Heaven's name work for him.
- It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing--"Carry a message to Garcia."
- Life: What you choose to make it.
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
- Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
- Men are strong just in proportion as they have the ability to say NO, and stand by it.
- No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Postponement: The father of failure.
- Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
- Responsibility is the price of freedom.
- Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
- Success is the realization of the estimate which you place upon yourself.