Logo
Quote by Elbert Hubbard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such p

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. – Elbert Hubbard

Other quotes by Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Patience
Author
Elbert Hubbard
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Simplicity
category

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. – Steve Maraboli

Category:
Simplicity

To those who complain of the complexity of modern life, he [Henry David Thoreau] might reply, “If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.” – Stewart Udall, The Quiet Crisis, 1963

Category:
Simplicity

Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. – Frank A. Clark

Category:
Simplicity

Simplicity is the seal of truth. – Proverb

Category:
Simplicity

Random Quotes

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it. – Lorna Luft

Category:
Humor

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. – William Faulkner

Category:
Gratitude

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They dont have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. – Tom Hiddleston

Category:
War

You cant test courage cautiously. – Annie Dillard

Category:
Courage