Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Grammar is the grave of letters.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

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

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

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

History: a collection of epitaphs.

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.

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

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?

Allow motion to equal emotion.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

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

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

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

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.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

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

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

Growth is often a painful process.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

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.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

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

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

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

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

History: gossip well told.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

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