Top 400 Elbert Hubbard Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others.”

— Elbert Hubbard

102. “The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

104. “Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”

— Elbert Hubbard

105. “The man who has no problems is out of the game.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

107. “Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

109. “Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.”

— Elbert Hubbard

110. “Men are only as great as they are kind.”

— Elbert Hubbard

111. “Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.”

— Elbert Hubbard

112. “If you don’t advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.”

— Elbert Hubbard

113. “What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.”

— Elbert Hubbard

114. “Every knock is a boost.”

— Elbert Hubbard

115. “Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.”

— Elbert Hubbard

116. “The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”

— Elbert Hubbard

117. “If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?”

— Elbert Hubbard

118. “Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

120. “Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.”

— Elbert Hubbard

121. “Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

122. “What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.”

— Elbert Hubbard

123. “The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.”

— Elbert Hubbard

124. “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

125. “Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.”

— Elbert Hubbard

126. “I believe the Universe is planned for good.”

— Elbert Hubbard

127. “The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.”

— Elbert Hubbard

128. “Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.”

— Elbert Hubbard

129. “Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o’clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.”

— Elbert Hubbard

130. “The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.”

— Elbert Hubbard

131. “Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.”

— Elbert Hubbard

132. “Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.”

— Elbert Hubbard

133. “Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.”

— Elbert Hubbard

134. “Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.”

— Elbert Hubbard

135. “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.”

— Elbert Hubbard

136. “The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.”

— Elbert Hubbard

137. “It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.”

— Elbert Hubbard

138. “Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

140. “You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.”

— Elbert Hubbard

141. “The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.”

— Elbert Hubbard

142. “Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

144. “Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.”

— Elbert Hubbard

145. “Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”

— Elbert Hubbard

146. “Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it’s larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.”

— Elbert Hubbard

147. “Don’t lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.”

— Elbert Hubbard

148. “Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.”

— Elbert Hubbard

149. “If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing – court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard