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

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

“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?”

“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”

“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”

“Laughter is higher than all pain.”

“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.”

Source: The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard

“It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”

“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural.. to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.”

“Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”

“Men are punished by their sins, not for them.”

Variant: We are punished by our sins not for them.
Source: Love, Life and Work
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 12
in The Note Book, Kessinger Publishing (reprint 1998)
Context: If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.

“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”

“Nothing is permanent but change.”

“We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.”

“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.”

“We work to become, not to acquire.”

“Responsibility is the price of freedom.”

“Men are only as great as they are kind.”

“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”