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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The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
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.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
We have not yet begun to fight.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
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The best things in life are not things.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
You become what you think about.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
They're called boobs, Ed.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.