Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

We work to become not to acquire.

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

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

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

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

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

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

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.