Source: In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage
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Famous Elbert Hubbard Quotes
“The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.”
Source: This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays
“As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things
“Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.”
Source: The Philistine
Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others
“One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Play needs direction as well as work.”
Source: Little Journeys to Homes of Great Scientists ...: Copernicus. Galileo. Sir Isaac Newton. Humboldt. Sir William Herschel. Charles Darwin
“A person born with an instinct for poverty.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work