Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Success consists in the climb.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Live truth instead of professing it.

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

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

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

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