Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

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 brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

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

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

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

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.

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

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

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

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

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

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

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.

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

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

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

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

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

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

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked

A goal without a plan is a dream.

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

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

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

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

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

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

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Theology is Classified Superstition.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

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

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

Don't make excuses, make good.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.