Top 400 Elbert Hubbard Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.”

— Elbert Hubbard

152. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

154. “I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life’s luggage.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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155. “The goal of evolution is self – conquest.”

— Elbert Hubbard

156. “Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.”

— Elbert Hubbard

157. “Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.”

— Elbert Hubbard

158. “There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.”

— Elbert Hubbard

159. “Postponement: The father of failure.”

— Elbert Hubbard

160. “There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.”

— Elbert Hubbard

161. “If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.”

— Elbert Hubbard

162. “A creed is an ossified metaphor.”

— Elbert Hubbard

163. “Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”

— Elbert Hubbard

164. “I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.”

— Elbert Hubbard

165. “Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

167. “Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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169. “Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.”

— Elbert Hubbard

170. “Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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171. “Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.”

— Elbert Hubbard

172. “The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.”

— Elbert Hubbard

173. “A good front is half the battle in love or war.”

— Elbert Hubbard

174. “The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.”

— Elbert Hubbard

175. “Allow motion to equal emotion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

176. “Success – To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.”

— Elbert Hubbard

177. “I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.”

— Elbert Hubbard

178. “Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.”

— Elbert Hubbard

179. “Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter’s colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.”

— Elbert Hubbard

180. “An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.”

— Elbert Hubbard

181. “Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.”

— Elbert Hubbard

182. “No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

184. “Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.”

— Elbert Hubbard

185. “Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.”

— Elbert Hubbard

186. “If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.”

— Elbert Hubbard

187. “No matter how long you live, die young.”

— Elbert Hubbard

188. “In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

190. “Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.”

— Elbert Hubbard

191. “The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.”

— Elbert Hubbard

192. “Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.”

— Elbert Hubbard

193. “Action is thought tempered by illusion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

194. “A man’s acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.”

— Elbert Hubbard

195. “There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.”

— Elbert Hubbard

196. “Habit: The great economizer of energy.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

198. “Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.”

— Elbert Hubbard

199. “If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

200. “Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.”

— Elbert Hubbard