Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

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

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

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

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

No matter how long you live, die young.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

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.

Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

As we grow better, we meet better people.

If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

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

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

Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

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

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.

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.

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

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

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

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.