Frases de Elbert Hubbard

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“Un amigo es uno que lo sabe todo de ti y a pesar de ello te quiere.”

“Un fracasado es un hombre que ha cometido un error y no es capaz de convertirlo en experiencia.”

“Una máquina puede hacer el trabajo de 50 hombres corrientes. Pero no existe ninguna máquina que pueda hacer el trabajo de un hombre extraordinario.”

“No hay fracaso excepto cuando no se intenta más.”

“Para evitar la crítica, no hagas nada, no digas nada, no seas nada.”

“El poder fluye hacia el hombre que tiene conocimientos.”

“La reputación de muchos hombres no conocería su carácter si se encontraran en la calle.”

“Todo hombre debería tener una educación universitaria para mostrarle lo poco que realmente vale la cosa.”

“Los hombres son castigados por sus pecados, no por ellos.”

“Si los hombres no actuarán para sí mismos, ¿qué harán cuando el beneficio de su esfuerzo sea para todos?”

“El amor crece dándolo. El amor que entregamos es el único amor que conservamos. La única manera de retener el amor es darlo.”

“No se tome la vida demasiado en serio; nunca saldrá usted vivo de ella.”

“Las inteligencias poco capaces se interesan en lo extraordinario; las inteligencias poderosas en las cosas ordinarias.”

“Existe algo mucho más escaso, fino y raro que el talento. Es el talento de reconocer a los talentosos.”

“Si alguna vez lo condenamos no será porque hayamos amado demasiado, sino porque hemos amado muy poco.”

“La vida es un compromiso entre el destino y el libre albedrío.”

“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”

“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?”

“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”

“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”

“Laughter is higher than all pain.”

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

“It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”

“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural.. to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.”

“Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”

“Men are punished by their sins, not for them.”

“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”

“Nothing is permanent but change.”

“We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.”

“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”

“We work to become, not to acquire.”

“Responsibility is the price of freedom.”

“Men are only as great as they are kind.”

“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

“Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life.”

“If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.”

“Making men live in three worlds at once — past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.”

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

“Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.”

“Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, "I have done it."”

“When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say "Canary!" — he'll take offense.”

“Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.”

“Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.”