The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
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Elbert Hubbard
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About Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Elbert HubbardOptimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
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.
Art is not a thing it is a way.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.