ELBERT HUBBARD

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

We work to become, not to acquire.

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

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

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

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

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

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

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Live truth instead of professing it.

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

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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

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.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

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

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.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.