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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Illinois
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When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
Elbert Hubbard
Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
Elbert Hubbard
Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
Elbert Hubbard
The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert Hubbard
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
Elbert Hubbard
I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
Elbert Hubbard
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
Elbert Hubbard
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
Elbert Hubbard
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Elbert Hubbard
War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
Elbert Hubbard
The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
Elbert Hubbard
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.
Elbert Hubbard
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
Elbert Hubbard
When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
Elbert Hubbard
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Elbert Hubbard
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
Elbert Hubbard
A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
Elbert Hubbard