Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
To avoid criticism 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.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
No matter where you go, there you are.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I'm an excellent driver.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Do it now !
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Follow your dreams.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
May you live all the days of your life.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
You had me at "hello".
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
For with god all things are possible.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
None are homely who smile.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.