Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
— Elbert Hubbard
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.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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 recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Fear clogs; faith liberates.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
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.
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Men are only as great as they are kind.
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
The man who has no problems is out of the game.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
