Elbert Hubbard

We work to become; not to acquire.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance,
superstition and incompetence.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
– Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
– Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

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.
– Elbert Hubbard

True life lies in laughter, love and work.
– Elbert Hubbard

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
– Elbert Hubbard

The only man who makes money following the horses is one who does it with a broom and a
shovel.
– Elbert Hubbard

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
– Elbert Hubbard

If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
– Elbert Hubbard

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
– Elbert Hubbard

A great success is made up of an aggregation of little ones.
– Elbert Hubbard

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one
extraordinary man.
– Elbert Hubbard

Art is not a thing – it is a way.
– Elbert Hubbard

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide
what to do.
– Elbert Hubbard

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in
two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
– Elbert Hubbard

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
– Elbert Hubbard

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide
what to do.
– Elbert Hubbard

Don’t make excuses – make good.
– Elbert Hubbard

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
– Elbert Hubbard

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
– Elbert Hubbard

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All
great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the
minutest detail.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
– Elbert Hubbard

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.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
– Elbert Hubbard

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the
dream come true.
– Elbert Hubbard

Death: to stop sinning suddenly.
– Elbert Hubbard

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
– Elbert Hubbard

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
– Elbert Hubbard

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for
chewing gum.
– Elbert Hubbard

War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large
standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is
going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the
issue.
– Elbert Hubbard

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know
it.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more
patience would have achieved success?
– Elbert Hubbard

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
– Elbert Hubbard

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
– Elbert Hubbard

Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
– Elbert Hubbard

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able
to appreciate.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

Enjoy what you have, work for what you lack.
– Elbert Hubbard

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you
cannot get.
– Elbert Hubbard

Nothing unmasks a man like his use of power.
– Elbert Hubbard

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

Everybody is interesting when he writes about himself, because he is discussing a subject in
which he is vitally interested – whether he understands the theme is another thing.
– Elbert Hubbard

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
– Elbert Hubbard

Blessed is that man who has found his work.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid for any more than they
do.
– Elbert Hubbard

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
– Elbert Hubbard

It does not make much difference what a person studies – all knowledge is related, and the
man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.
– Elbert Hubbard

Life is just one damned thing after another.
– Elbert Hubbard

He who influences the thought of his times influences all the times that follow. He has made
his impress on eternity.
– Elbert Hubbard

Few people, comparatively, think for themselves.
– Elbert Hubbard

If you can not answer a man’s argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
– Elbert Hubbard

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
– Elbert Hubbard

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.
– Elbert Hubbard

Complete success alienates a man from his fellows, but suffering makes kinsmen of us all.
– Elbert Hubbard

Theology is classified superstition.
– Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.
– Elbert Hubbard

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

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

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
– Elbert Hubbard

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
– Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
– Elbert Hubbard

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done,
and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
– Elbert Hubbard