Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

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

“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.”

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

“Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.”

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

“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”

“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.”

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

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

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

“The cheerful loser is the winner.”

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

“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.”

“As we grow better, we meet better people.”

“To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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