Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Elbert Hubbard (106)

Birth:	19th June, 1856
Death:	7th May, 1915
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Philosopher, Publisher, Writer

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• Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Humour

• The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Life

• The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in World, Moving

• Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vacation, Had

• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Wisdom
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  A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Friend, Knows

• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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  Topics in Expectations, Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Satisfaction
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  A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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  Topics in Effort, Failure, Success

  Tags in Hopeless, Glorious

• A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Doubt

• A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man

• A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

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  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Token, Greatness

• A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Optimist

• A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Woman

• A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conservative, Man

• The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Failure, Success

• Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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  Topics in Art, Business

  Tags in Science

• Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

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  Tags in Christianity, Heaven, Friends

• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idea, Dangerous, Unworthy

• Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morning, Care