Elbert Hubbard

We work to become, not to acquire.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Live truth instead of professing it.

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.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

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.

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

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

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.

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

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.