Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

We fail when we give up too soon.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

It's always too early to quit.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.