Elbert Green Hubbard Quotes

And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.

You gain by giving — so give sympathy and cheerful loyalty to the institution. Be proud of it.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

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

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

Genius is often 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 clear 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.

Life is unrest, and its passage at best a zigzag course, that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the years.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing — "Carry a message to Garcia!"

Every spirit makes his own house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well.

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

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.