Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

“No matter how long you live, die young.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Government is a kind of legalized pillage.”

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

“True life lies in laughter, love and work.”

“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.”

“Logic is one thing and commonsense another.”

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

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

“The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.”

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

“Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.”

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