Elbert Hubbard Quotes

“Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.”

“A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.”

“Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others”

“All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.”

“Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.”

“What people need and what they want may be very different.”

“Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.”

“The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”

“Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.”

“Allow motion to equal emotion.”

“The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train havealways been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.”

“A good front is half the battle in love or war.”

“There is no failure except the failure of trying.”

“A person born with an instinct for poverty.”

“The reward of a good deed is in having done it.”

“What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.”

“Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously”

“The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.”

“It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.”

“A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.”

“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.”

“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.”

“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.”

“A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.”

“Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.”