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Famous Elbert Hubbard Quotes
“Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.”
“Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.”
“The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.”
“God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.”
“The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.”
“Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.”
“True life lies in laughter, love and work.”
“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
“Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
“Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.”
“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”
“Nothing is permanent but change.”
“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.”
“Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.”
“Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.”
“If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.”
“The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.”
“One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.”
“A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.”
“The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”
“Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.”
“History: a collection of epitaphs.”
“Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”
“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.”
“Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.”