Elbert Hubbard

Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

We work to become not to acquire.

Victory - a matter of staying power.

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

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

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.

Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

The cure for grief is motion.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.

Where much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

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

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.