Elbert Hubbard Quotes


"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."
- Elbert Hubbard
"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Friendship, Credit)

"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Thought, Inferiority, Fear)

"Live truth instead of professing it."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Truth)

"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Love, Giving)

"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Success)

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Character, Man, Reputation)

"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
(Related: Success, Time, Effort, Man, Patience)

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Enemies, Friends, Will)

"Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Mistake, College)

"No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Day)

"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."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Help, Word)

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Work, Men, Machine, Man)

"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Heart, Failure, Optimism)

"Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Death, Faith, Love, Life, Hope)

"Life in abundance comes only through great love."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Life, Love, Abundance)

"In order to have friends, you must first be one."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: First, Friends, Order)

"Initiative is doing the right things without being told."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Being, Right)

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Strength)

"It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: First, Want)

"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Friendship, Cause, Debate, May)

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Genius, Limitations, May, Stupidity)

"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Thought, Goal, Day, Sunset, Want, Will)

"If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive."
- Elbert Hubbard
"Life is just one damned thing after another."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Life)

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Negative, Positive, Nothing)

"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Arguments, Man, Names)

"Fear clogs; faith liberates."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Faith, Fear)

"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Anticipation, Trouble)

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."
- Elbert Hubbard
"It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Being, Pretty)

"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Ability)

"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Answers, Expectation, Satisfaction)

"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Love, Men, Progress, Hate, Reason)

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Knowledge, Content, Ignorance, Opinions)

"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
"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Supernatural)

"The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner."
- Elbert Hubbard
"The thing we fear we bring to pass."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Fear)

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Teaching)

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Failure, Trying)

"The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Man, Reward, Risk)

"This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Money, Books, Country, Will)

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Criticism, Nothing)

"We are not punished for our sins, but by them."
- Elbert Hubbard
"We are punished by our sins, not for them."
- Elbert Hubbard
"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Attitude, Mind)

"We work to become, not to acquire."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Work)

"Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Dream, Events, May)

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Friend, Man)

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Man, World)

"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Friend, Man)

"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: God, Will)

"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Success, Will)

"Responsibility is the price of freedom."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Freedom, Responsibility)

"Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Forgiveness, Man, Treatment)

"Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Secrets)

"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Enemies, Example, Killing, Will)

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Work, Preparation, Today, Tomorrow)

"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Home, America, Enemies, Ignorance, Incompetence, Superstition)

"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Greatness, Being, Criticism, Lies, Proof, Resentment)

"Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Life)

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Life, Mistake)

"The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Happiness, Life)

"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Work, God, Ability, Reward)

"The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Idea, Being)

"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Gods, Being, Ecstasy, Envy, Joy)

"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."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Success, Failure)

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Love)

"The man who has no problems is out of the game."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Man, Problems)

"The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Science, Church)

"A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Compliments, Doubt, Will, Woman)

"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Conservative, Fight, Man)

"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Experience, Failure, Man)

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Friend)

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Success, Failure, Effort, May, Persistence)

"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Man, Woman)

"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Man)

"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Greatness, Ability, Forget, May, Memory)

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Idea, Unworthy)

"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Art)

"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Art, Business, Science)

"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Work, Heart, Competition, Succeed, Will)

"A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist."
- Elbert Hubbard
"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
(Related: Business)

"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Care, Day, Rest, Will)

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Life, Will)

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Silence, Will, Words)

"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."
- Elbert Hubbard
"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Freedom)

"Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: People, Christianity, Friends, Heaven, Hell)

"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Time, Attitude, Character, Result)

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Wisdom, Day, Fool, Man)