Top 400 Elbert Hubbard Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.”

— Elbert Hubbard

302. “The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.”

— Elbert Hubbard

303. “Every life is its own excuse for being.”

— Elbert Hubbard

304. “Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.”

— Elbert Hubbard

305. “Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

306. “Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.”

— Elbert Hubbard

307. “Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.”

— Elbert Hubbard

308. “The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.”

— Elbert Hubbard

309. “I believe in the Motherhood of God.”

— Elbert Hubbard

310. “It is only life and love that give love and life.”

— Elbert Hubbard

311. “Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.”

— Elbert Hubbard

312. “As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.”

— Elbert Hubbard

313. “Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.”

— Elbert Hubbard

314. “Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.”

— Elbert Hubbard

315. “The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.”

— Elbert Hubbard

316. “No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

317. “A form of self-delusion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

318. “The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.”

— Elbert Hubbard

319. “Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.”

— Elbert Hubbard

320. “A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

321. “Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown.”

— Elbert Hubbard

322. “I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.”

— Elbert Hubbard

323. “I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.”

— Elbert Hubbard

324. “Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven’t any to speak of.”

— Elbert Hubbard

325. “I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.”

— Elbert Hubbard

326. “We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.”

— Elbert Hubbard

327. “Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.”

— Elbert Hubbard

328. “A person born with an instinct for poverty.”

— Elbert Hubbard

329. “The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.”

— Elbert Hubbard

330. “All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.”

— Elbert Hubbard

331. “The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.”

— Elbert Hubbard

332. “We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.”

— Elbert Hubbard

333. “Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.”

— Elbert Hubbard

334. “In God’s great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.”

— Elbert Hubbard

335. “There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.”

— Elbert Hubbard

336. “Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.”

— Elbert Hubbard

337. “History: a collection of epitaphs.”

— Elbert Hubbard

338. “I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up.”

— Elbert Hubbard

339. “Government is a kind of legalized pillage.”

— Elbert Hubbard

340. “We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.”

— Elbert Hubbard

341. “The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion.”

— Elbert Hubbard

342. “Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.”

— Elbert Hubbard

343. “The more one knows, the more one simplifies.”

— Elbert Hubbard

344. “Punishment – The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.”

— Elbert Hubbard

345. “Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

346. “Strength and strength’s will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.”

— Elbert Hubbard

347. “When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

348. “Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so – that is to say, as free as man.”

— Elbert Hubbard

349. “One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.”

— Elbert Hubbard

350. “Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it.”

— Elbert Hubbard