J. G. Hubbard Quotes

Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.

I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.

Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

There is no failure except the failure of trying.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

Postponement: The father of failure.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Habit: The great economizer of energy.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.

Look out for the people who allow you to do all the talking.

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances.

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

We've got some new ways to make slaves here.

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.

Through our hardest times we have endured. Into our brightest times we are expanding.

A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.