Elbert Hubbard Quotes
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.
Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.
Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.
