Elbert Hubbard Quotes

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.

Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.

I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

In failure, children learn how to struggle with adversity and how to confront fear. By reflecting on failure, children begin to see how to correct themselves and then try again with better results.

Every year is a roller coaster. I've enjoyed the struggle of having new coaches and having to prove myself over again. Being able to figure out ways to solve problems, to overcome obstacles - that's been fun.

I love to experiment and take every opportunity as a challenge.

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

I learned that life is filled with ups and downs and it's just about how you react to them.

We learn so much from difficulties.

When faced with an obstacle or uncertainty in your abilities, use it as an opportunity to grow your talents.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

Choose a challenge instead of competence

Learn to eat problems for breakfast

It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.

You have to do things that do good for you and when there's an uncharted course, you have to figure out how to get through it.

Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.