Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

As a career the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through Hell.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands nor in the perfection of their bodies but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow to live an eternity in an hour.

To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars!

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

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.

Dont lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

There is no devil but fear.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we havent.

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used.

Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.