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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I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Be the ball.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Reach for the stars.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
I light my candle from their torches.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
I want the fairy tale.
There are never enough I Love You's.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Don't dream it be it.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Think and grow rich.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Better late than never.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
We will either find a way or make one.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Do or do not, there is no try.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.