J. G. Hubbard Quotes

The cheerful loser is the winner.

The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

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

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Are you making life or is life making you?

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

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

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

One cannot be able in life by fearing to live.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!

Men are only as great as they are kind.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.

True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.

No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.