Life Quotes Quote by Elbert Hubbard — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

“A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.”

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”

“Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? Couldn't he see, couldn't he see that? Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others would all be condemned one day. And he would be condemned, too.”

“You have every right to a beautiful life.”

““Do you understand what I'm saying?"”

““You look ridiculous if you dance”

“Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.”