Elbert Hubbard

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

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

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.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

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

We work to become, not to acquire.

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

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

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

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

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

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.