Elbert Green Hubbard Quotes

Y esa incapacidad para la acción independiente, esta estupidez moral, esta atrofia de la voluntad, esta mala gana para remover por sí mismo los obstáculos, es lo que retarda el bienestar colectivo de la sociedad.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

"Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El amor que regalamos es el único amor que mantenemos" (Elbert Hubbard)"

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding away, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are requiered for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the element it needs. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual... Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude - the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer. To think rightly is to create. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high. We are good in the chrysalis.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, "I have done it."

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed.

Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.

Hubo un hombre cuya actuación en la guerra de Cuba culmina en los horizontes de mi memoria, como culmina un astro en su perihelio.