Elbert Hubbard famous quotes

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Morning #Business #Work

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Motivational #Positive #Gratitude

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Children #Parenting #Parent

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Inspirational #Life #Failure

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Grieving #Silence #Self Respect

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Life #Friendship #Real Friends

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Inspirational #Success #Perseverance

True life lies in laughter, love and work.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Love #Laughter #Lying

Men are only as great as they are kind.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Men #Literature #Kind

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Inspirational #Life #Inspiring

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Good Morning #Care #Personal Growth

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Leadership #Wisdom #Attitude

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Funny #Smile #Men

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Greatness #People #Goal

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Friendship #Love You #Optimistic

Responsibility is the price of freedom.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Inspirational #Motivational #Responsibility

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Wisdom #Men #Limits

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Inspirational #Motivational #Strength

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Teacher #Retirement #School

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Education #Teacher #Ideas

Victory; a matter of staying power.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Power #Victory #Matter

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Inferiority #Literature

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Love #Hate #Men

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Love #Friendship #Truth

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Inspirational #Funny #Life

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Lying #Greatness #Men

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Persistence #Effort #Trying

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Wheels #Wealth #Used

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Leadership #Inspiration #Literature

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Time #Attitude #Character

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Habit #Should #Masters

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#People #Heaven #Literature

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Dream #Hope #Inspiration

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Inspirational #Ignorance #Knowledge

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Lying #Greatness #Criticism

Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Truth #Character #Hypocrite

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

#Inspirational #Encouraging #Cheer

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Integrity #Character #Men

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Wisdom #Nature #Understanding

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

#Business #Writing #Editors

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Death #Government #Long

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Success #Literature #Impossible

The man who has no problems is out of the game.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Men #Games #Problem

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Happiness #Gratitude #Way

Life is just one damned thing after another.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Life #Success #Justice

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Time #Stress #Obnoxious

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Positive #Tests #Fine Things

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Life #Freedom #Tyrants

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

#Agreement #Long #Lost Friendship

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Mistake #Divine #Profit

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
-- Elbert Hubbard

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Men #Giving #Letters

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Enthusiasm #Hills #Climbers

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

#Inspiring #Success #Patience

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Home #Ignorance #America

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Art #Way #Art Is

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Peace #Men #Sky

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Dream #Inspiration #Fence

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Faith #Believe #Common Sense

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Enemy #Telling The Truth #Cynicism

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Loyalty #Men #Thinking

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Beautiful #Death #Men

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Mind #Literature #Littles

In order to have friends, you must first be one.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Order #Firsts

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Heart #Optimistic #Optimism

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Memories #Greatness #May

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Happiness #Forgiveness #Spiritual

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

#Perseverance #Sunset #Goal

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

#Marriage #Funny Love #Mistake

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

#Beautiful #Art #Block

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Strength #Success #Being Strong

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Happiness #Heartache #Joy

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Strong #Men #Compromise

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Humility #Men #Pessimist

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Men #Lawyer #Protect

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Punishment #Justice #Guilt

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Inspiring #Fitness #Warning

Success consists in the climb.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Climbs

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Freedom

If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Sports #Loyalty #Heart

As we grow better, we meet better people.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#People #Grows

Growth is often a painful process.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Growth #Painful #Process

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Science #Men #Done

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Motivational #Effort #Genius

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Growing Up #Climbing #Habit

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Waiting #Too Late

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Littles #Matter

There is no failure except the failure of trying.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Trying #Advertising #No Failure

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Lying #Stupid #Men

The cure for grief is motion.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Grief #Cures

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Time #Influence

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Strong #Labor Day #Weak

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#College #Men #Order

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Ideas #Brain #Commodity

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Wise #Heart #Helping Others

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Inspiring #Graduation #Boys

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Faith

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Men #Volunteer #Giving

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Happiness #Joy #Occupation