Elbert Hubbard Quotes

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

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?

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.