Top 400 Elbert Hubbard Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.”

— Elbert Hubbard

202. “The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.”

— Elbert Hubbard

203. “All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.”

— Elbert Hubbard

204. “I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”

— Elbert Hubbard

205. “As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.”

— Elbert Hubbard

206. “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

207. “I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I’m ready, RIGHT NOW.”

— Elbert Hubbard

208. “Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it – anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.”

— Elbert Hubbard

209. “When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.”

— Elbert Hubbard

210. “Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire.”

— Elbert Hubbard

211. “All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many.”

— Elbert Hubbard

212. “The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.”

— Elbert Hubbard

213. “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

214. “Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.”

— Elbert Hubbard

215. “Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.”

— Elbert Hubbard

216. “Man is Creation’s masterpiece. But who says so?”

— Elbert Hubbard

217. “We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.”

— Elbert Hubbard

218. “The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.”

— Elbert Hubbard

219. “Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.”

— Elbert Hubbard

220. “Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”

— Elbert Hubbard

221. “Life in abundance comes only through great love.”

— Elbert Hubbard

222. “Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.”

— Elbert Hubbard

223. “A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.”

— Elbert Hubbard

224. “Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.”

— Elbert Hubbard

225. “It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

226. “Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better.”

— Elbert Hubbard

227. “He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.”

— Elbert Hubbard

228. “Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.”

— Elbert Hubbard

229. “A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.”

— Elbert Hubbard

230. “Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are. By.”

— Elbert Hubbard

231. “God – the John Doe of philosophy and religion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

232. “The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.”

— Elbert Hubbard

233. “Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.”

— Elbert Hubbard

234. “To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .”

— Elbert Hubbard

235. “Conformists die, but heretics live forever.”

— Elbert Hubbard

236. “A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.”

— Elbert Hubbard

237. “The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.”

— Elbert Hubbard

238. “Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

239. “If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.”

— Elbert Hubbard

240. “The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.”

— Elbert Hubbard

241. “Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?”

— Elbert Hubbard

242. “Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.”

— Elbert Hubbard

243. “Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

246. “When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.”

— Elbert Hubbard

247. “Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.”

— Elbert Hubbard

248. “The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.”

— Elbert Hubbard

249. “An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard