Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.”

“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.”

“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.”

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

“Responsibility is the price of freedom.”

“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.”

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

“Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.”

“God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.”

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

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

“Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”

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