Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

Quotes

• He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

• The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.

• To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

• Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.

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

• 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.

• An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

• Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

• Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

• Life is just one damned thing after another.

• 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.

• The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

• The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

• Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them; power to the man who knows how.

• Life in abundance comes only through great love.

• Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

• The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

• Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.