Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

— Elbert Hubbard

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

— Elbert Hubbard

Allow motion to equal emotion.

— Elbert Hubbard

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

— Elbert Hubbard

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

— Elbert Hubbard

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

— Elbert Hubbard

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.

— Elbert Hubbard

What people need and what they want may be very different.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

— Elbert Hubbard

To stop sinning suddenly.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

— Elbert Hubbard

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

— Elbert Hubbard

Every life is its own excuse for being.

— Elbert Hubbard

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

— Elbert Hubbard

One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.

— Elbert Hubbard

Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

— Elbert Hubbard

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

— Elbert Hubbard

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

— Elbert Hubbard

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

— Elbert Hubbard

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

— Elbert Hubbard

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well.

— Elbert Hubbard

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

— Elbert Hubbard

Grammar is the grave of letters.

— Elbert Hubbard

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

— Elbert Hubbard

Habit is a form of exercise

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

— Elbert Hubbard

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

— Elbert Hubbard

Laughter is higher than all pain.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

The cheerful loser is the winner.

— Elbert Hubbard

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

— Elbert Hubbard

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

— Elbert Hubbard

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

— Elbert Hubbard

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

— Elbert Hubbard

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

— Elbert Hubbard

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

— Elbert Hubbard

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

— Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

— Elbert Hubbard

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

— Elbert Hubbard

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

— Elbert Hubbard

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

— Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

— Elbert Hubbard

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

— Elbert Hubbard

Play needs direction as well as work.

— Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

— Elbert Hubbard

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today

— Elbert Hubbard

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

— Elbert Hubbard

The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.

— Elbert Hubbard

The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

— Elbert Hubbard

If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.

— Elbert Hubbard

Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.

— Elbert Hubbard

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

— Elbert Hubbard

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

— Elbert Hubbard

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

— Elbert Hubbard

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

— Elbert Hubbard

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

— Elbert Hubbard

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

— Elbert Hubbard

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

— Elbert Hubbard

Live truth instead of professing it.

— Elbert Hubbard

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

— Elbert Hubbard

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

— Elbert Hubbard

Victory; a matter of staying power.

— Elbert Hubbard

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

— Elbert Hubbard

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

— Elbert Hubbard

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

— Elbert Hubbard

We work to become, not to acquire.

— Elbert Hubbard

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

— Elbert Hubbard

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.

— Elbert Hubbard