J. G. Hubbard Quotes

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

We work to become not to acquire.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Fear clogs faith liberates.

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Art is not a thing it is a way.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

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.

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

quote from Chase the Moon- Some people are just downright wicked, and sometimes evil wins - but not always.

You have to stop and freeze the moment, " he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.

I've come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?

You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.

But we'd only had so many nights together, and the notebook had so many pages, and the world was never going to get bigger.

You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.

What's the good of being alive if you don't do anything?

Our future lies on the horizon of our destiny.

You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.

But what I do know is this: you got to find your own places. The places you get, girl, the ones that stick in your heart. And if you’re lucky, you find people to share them with.

Our loved ones are always with us whether they are of the flesh or of the spirit.

We are traveling down a path with no happy ending, and it's too late to turn around.

Impulsive isn’t something you choose. It’s something youare.

Until it has scared you with its endlessness, sky is just sky.

Why do yo keep doing this?""Because I've wanted to be with you for three years, okay? That's why.

She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led a sheltered life?"I said I thought the description fairly apt.

We’re both made of stars, Jory Birch. Everybody is.

Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don’t have to.

I just had to find the courage to take that first step.

It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.

Nothing Stays Secret Forever

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit

Man is an endangered species.

What were you supposed to say to people you barely knew? That was the kind of thing I needed lessons in - forget algebra and history.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet subtle satisfaction without the risk.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.

Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

One thing at a time all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.

To be born free is an accident to live free a responsibility to die free is an obligation.

But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella's Prince Charming - other than he's a handsome prince?

A bee is never as busy as it seems it's just that it can't buzz any slower.