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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with E >> Quotes By Elbert Hubbard |
| Quote #1: | "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." |
| Quote #2: | "Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street." |
| Quote #3: | "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods." |
| Quote #4: | "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." |
| Quote #5: | "The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia." |
| Quote #6: | "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit." |
| Quote #7: | "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." |
| Quote #8: | "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life." |
| Quote #9: | "If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble." |
| Quote #10: | "There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability." |
| Quote #11: | "The artist needs no religion beyond his work." |
| Quote #12: | "The love we give away is the only love we keep." |
| Quote #13: | "If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign that you are alive." |
| Quote #14: | "Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one." |
| Quote #15: | "I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate." |
| Quote #16: | "The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all." |
| Quote #17: | "Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure." |
| Quote #18: | "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." |
| Quote #19: | "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" |
| Quote #20: | "Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." |
| Quote #21: | "Life is just one damned thing after another." |
| Quote #22: | "A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run." |
| Quote #23: | "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." |
| Quote #24: | "The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before." |
| Quote #25: | "We are punished by our sins, not for them." |
| Quote #26: | "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." |
| Quote #27: | "He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much." |
| Quote #28: | "A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them." |
| Quote #29: | "No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day." |
| Quote #30: | "Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." |
| Quote #31: | "Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth." |
| Quote #32: | "Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them." |
| Quote #33: | "Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber." |
| Quote #34: | "Editor a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." |
| Quote #35: | "An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness." |
| Quote #36: | "Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is." |
| Quote #37: | "The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." |
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