Quote

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Elbert Hubbard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
Publisher
Writer
Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
Luck
Purpose
Tenacity

More quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Image
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
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.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The cure for grief is motion.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
Elbert Hubbard
Image
It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
Elbert Hubbard
Image
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
Elbert Hubbard