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

—Elbert Hubbard

About Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) 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,...

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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

—Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

—Elbert Hubbard

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

—Elbert Hubbard

Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

—Elbert Hubbard

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

—Elbert Hubbard

More quotations tagged with “mistakes”

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

—Dr. David M. Burns

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

—Cato the Elder

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