Top 400 Elbert Hubbard Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

154. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

157. “Postponement: The father of failure.”

— Elbert Hubbard

158. “A creed is an ossified metaphor.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

160. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

166. “A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

170. “Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.”

— Elbert Hubbard

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

175. “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

176. “Allow motion to equal emotion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

183. “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

184. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

186. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

189. “Action is thought tempered by illusion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

195. “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

196. “The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.”

— Elbert Hubbard

197. “To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.”

— Elbert Hubbard

198. “It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.”

— Elbert Hubbard

199. “I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”

— Elbert Hubbard

200. “Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.”

— Elbert Hubbard