Elbert Hubbard

• A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.
• A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
• A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
• Allow motion to equal emotion.
• Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
• Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
• Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
• If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
• 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.
• Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
• Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
• The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
• The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
• There is no failure except in no longer trying.
• There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
• To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
• To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
• What people need and what they want may be very different.
• Your neighbor is the man who needs you.