Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

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

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

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

Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

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.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

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

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 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.

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

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

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

We are punished by our sins, not for them.