Top 400 Elbert Hubbard Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

254. “An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.”

— Elbert Hubbard

255. “Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.”

— Elbert Hubbard

256. “When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

258. “Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.”

— Elbert Hubbard

259. “Your neighbor is the man who needs you.”

— Elbert Hubbard

260. “In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

261. “This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker.”

— Elbert Hubbard

262. “Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.”

— Elbert Hubbard

263. “Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.”

— Elbert Hubbard

264. “Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.”

— Elbert Hubbard

265. “The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.”

— Elbert Hubbard

266. “True life lies in laughter, love and work.”

— Elbert Hubbard

267. “Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.”

— Elbert Hubbard

268. “Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.”

— Elbert Hubbard

269. “Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.”

— Elbert Hubbard

270. “Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”

— Elbert Hubbard

271. “Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.”

— Elbert Hubbard

272. “Live truth instead of professing it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

273. “It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.”

— Elbert Hubbard

274. “As we grow better, we meet better people.”

— Elbert Hubbard

275. “A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.”

— Elbert Hubbard

276. “Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.”

— Elbert Hubbard

277. “Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire.”

— Elbert Hubbard

278. “Library: A place where the dead lie.”

— Elbert Hubbard

279. “The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

280. “Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.”

— Elbert Hubbard

281. “There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.”

— Elbert Hubbard

282. “The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.”

— Elbert Hubbard

283. “To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.”

— Elbert Hubbard

284. “Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.”

— Elbert Hubbard

285. “Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.”

— Elbert Hubbard

286. “If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”

— Elbert Hubbard

287. “A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”

— Elbert Hubbard

288. “The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.”

— Elbert Hubbard

289. “Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.”

— Elbert Hubbard

290. “Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.”

— Elbert Hubbard

291. “Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token.”

— Elbert Hubbard

292. “The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.”

— Elbert Hubbard

293. “Failure – The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.”

— Elbert Hubbard

294. “Laughter is higher than all pain.”

— Elbert Hubbard

295. “A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.”

— Elbert Hubbard

296. “The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.”

— Elbert Hubbard

297. “Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

298. “Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

300. “A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.”

— Elbert Hubbard