Elbert Green Hubbard Quotes

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

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

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

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

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

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.

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