Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Every life is its own excuse for being.

It is only life and love that give love and life.

Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.

The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

Success consists in the climb.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

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

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

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

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

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

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

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

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

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

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

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

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

Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

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

History: a collection of epitaphs.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

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

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

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

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

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

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom beenpractised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

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

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how