Elbert Hubbard
Found 105 thoughts of Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.
Elbert Hubbard
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Elbert Hubbard
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. 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. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. As the tide goes out, so it comes clear in. In business, sometimes, prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard
It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.
Elbert Hubbard
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Elbert Hubbard
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard
There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Elbert Hubbard
The Great Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert Hubbard
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
Elbert Hubbard
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
