Elbert Hubbard Quotes

“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”

“If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.”

“This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

“Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.”

“Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.”

“Victory; a matter of staying power.”

“The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.”

“The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.”

“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”

“Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.”

“No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.”

“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”

“Laughter is higher than all pain.”

“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.”

“The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.”

“Life is just one damned thing after another.”

“Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.”

“Habit is a form of exercise.”

“There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.”

“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.”

“To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .”

“Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.”

“Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.”

“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.”

“Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.”