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Life Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard says the best way to prepare for life is simply to start living and to focus on work, love, and laughter. He warns that constantly fearing mistakes is a big error, and that happiness comes more from our attitude than from what happens. He also criticizes religions that distract us from daily life.

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Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

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True life lies in laughter, love and work.

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Every life is its own excuse for being.

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Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

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Every knock is a boost.

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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

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It is only life and love that give love and life.

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Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

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Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

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Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is…

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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

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“Life is unrest, and its passage at best a zigzag course, that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the…

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Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the…

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“The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is to love, laugh, and work.”

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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing…

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War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or…

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Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion,…

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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down…

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Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day…

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Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your…

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Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is…

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In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as…

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“Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost;…

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Life in abundance comes only through great love.

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Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

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The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

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Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

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Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

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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…

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better

Art is nothing; it's a way.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought…

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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference…

Every knock is a boost.

What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

Don't make excuses, make good.

What people need and what they want may be very different… Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.