Elbert Hubbard Quotes and Quotations
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars!
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Remember this: If you work for a man, in Heaven's name, work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position, and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and every man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.
An editor - a person employed on a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
Victory - a matter of staying power.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
If you want a work well done, select a busy man: the other kind has no time.
We work to become, not to acquire.
Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.
Life without absorbing occupation is hell.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .
Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.
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.
Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used.
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed- it is a process of elimination.
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
Time is an illusion-to orators.
The past is one evil less and one memory more.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
There is no devil but fear.
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. 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. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
The cure for grief is motion.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
The love we give away is the only one we keep.
Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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.
Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.