Top 400 Elbert Hubbard Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

52. “Life is a compromise between fate and free will.”

— Elbert Hubbard

53. “The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

55. “All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.”

— Elbert Hubbard

56. “If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.”

— Elbert Hubbard

57. “Don’t make excuses, make good.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

59. “No man ever did or can do a great work alone.”

— Elbert Hubbard

60. “There is no failure except the failure of trying.”

— Elbert Hubbard

61. “Victory; a matter of staying power.”

— Elbert Hubbard

62. “If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”

— Elbert Hubbard

63. “Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

66. “Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.”

— Elbert Hubbard

67. “Fences are made for those who cannot fly.”

— Elbert Hubbard

68. “We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”

— Elbert Hubbard

69. “The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

71. “The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”

— Elbert Hubbard

72. “Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

74. “The reward of a good deed is in having done it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

75. “Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.”

— Elbert Hubbard

76. “Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”

— Elbert Hubbard

77. “Fear clogs; Faith liberates.”

— Elbert Hubbard

78. “Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.”

— Elbert Hubbard

79. “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

81. “Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.”

— Elbert Hubbard

82. “Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.”

— Elbert Hubbard

83. “A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.”

— Elbert Hubbard

84. “Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.”

— Elbert Hubbard

85. “Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn’t know it’s dead.”

— Elbert Hubbard

86. “Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.”

— Elbert Hubbard

87. “It is the weak man who urges compromise – never the strong man.”

— Elbert Hubbard

88. “If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.”

— Elbert Hubbard

89. “Luck is tenacity of purpose.”

— Elbert Hubbard

90. “Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.”

— Elbert Hubbard

91. “It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”

— Elbert Hubbard

92. “If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.”

— Elbert Hubbard

93. “The art of winning in business is in working hard – not taking things too seriously.”

— Elbert Hubbard

94. “If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.”

— Elbert Hubbard

95. “One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

97. “If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

99. “The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”

— Elbert Hubbard

100. “Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”

— Elbert Hubbard