Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

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

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

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.