Elbert Hubbard Quotes

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

He who says it cannot be done should get out of the way of the one who is doing it.

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

Be a doer and not a critic.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

We live in a world where action is what counts.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Never mistake motion for action.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.