Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
ELBERT HUBBARDA failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
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Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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