Elbert Hubbard Quotes

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard

God, Alive, Sure

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Elbert Hubbard

Everything, Cannot, Learn

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

Friends, Hell, Heaven

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard

Work, Good, God

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

Experience, Failure, Able

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

Good, Bad, Woman

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard

Failure, Heart, Optimism

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

Head, Hands, Paid

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard

Freedom, Himself, Lived

Men are only as great as they are kind.
Elbert Hubbard

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert Hubbard

Long, Example, Private

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

Success, Failure, Between

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard

Attitude, Mind, Same

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard

True, May, Dream

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

Friend, Knows, Likes

Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard

Truth, Live, Instead

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

Character, Reputation, Street

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Elbert Hubbard

Natural, Understood

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard

Alone, Help, Leaving

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.
Elbert Hubbard

Moving, Someone, Done

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

Person, Pessimist, Optimist

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert Hubbard

Fear, Thought, Admitted

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
Elbert Hubbard

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, Long, May

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 19, 1859

Died: May 7, 1915

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