Elbert Hubbard

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage, but simply because they have never organised their energies around a goal.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

If gold rust what shall the iron do?

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living…

I think; therefore I am.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.