Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

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

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

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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?

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

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

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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.

The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be

Nothing is permanent but change.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

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

Men are only as great as they are kind.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.