Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

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.

Aptitud suple antigüedad.

The best service a book can render you is not to impart truth, but to make you think it out for yourself.

Công th?c cho s? ngu d?t chung thân là: Th?a mãn v?i quan ?i?m c?a mình và hài lòng v?i tri th?c c?a mình.

Nous devenons pareils à l'idéal que nous portons en notre cœur.

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

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

Work to become, not to acquire.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

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

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

these are things that put pure socialism so far into the future. If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

No se tome la vida demasiado en serio; nunca saldrá usted vivo de ella

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Every knock is a boost.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.