Elbert Hubbard Quotes: 24

• A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

• He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

• Life in abundance comes only through great love.

• 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.

• A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

• 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.

• 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.

• God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

• Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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

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

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• There is no failure except in no longer trying.

• I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

• A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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

• 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.

• True life lies in laughter, love and work.

• I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

• Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

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

• This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

• 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.

• Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

• Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.