Source: The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
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Famous Elbert Hubbard Quotes
“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”
“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“We work to become, not to acquire.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
“Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
Source: The Doctors: A Satire in Four Seizures
Source: Health & Wealth
“Live truth instead of professing it.”
Source: The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest
“Men are only as great as they are kind.”
Source: Little journeys to the homes of great musicians
Source: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.”
Source: Joint Debate Hubbard-Albertson: Question: Resolved
Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things
“The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”
Source: As it Seems to Me: Being Some Philistine Essays Concerning Several Things
“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”
Source: The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”
Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings
“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.”
“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes
“Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.”
Source: The Philistine
“The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”
“We are not punished for our sins, but by them.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.”
“No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.”
“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.”
Source: The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation
“The thing we fear we bring to pass.”
Source: A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings
Source: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written
“Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists: Thorwaldsen