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.”

“Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.”

“Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.”

“Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.”

“The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.”

“If we ever damned it will not be because we have loved too much, but because we have loved too little.”

“If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.”

“The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.”

“Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.”

“Should we have an Eleventh Commandment?" asked a youth of the Greatest Living Actress. "Most assuredly, no - we have ten too many now!”

“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”

“It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P. S.: I never inherited any money.”

“To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise — and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.”

“Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.”

“Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.”

“Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.”

“Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.”

“Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals.
Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village — in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly — the man who can "Carry a Message to Garcia."”

“The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.”

“Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.”

“Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.”

“Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.”

“It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity — of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.”

“Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.”

“The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.”

“Life is a compromise between fate and free will.”

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”

“There is no such thing as success in a bad business.”

“The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.”

“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.”