Top 400 Elbert Hubbard Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “A creed is an ossified metaphor.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

155. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

161. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

168. “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

169. “Allow motion to equal emotion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

175. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

177. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

181. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

184. “Action is thought tempered by illusion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

192. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— 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. “Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.”

— Elbert Hubbard

197. “Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

198. “Success consists in the climb.”

— Elbert Hubbard

199. “Grammar is the grave of letters.”

— Elbert Hubbard

200. “Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.”

— Elbert Hubbard