Top 400 Elbert Hubbard Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

352. “Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.”

— Elbert Hubbard

353. “Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.”

— Elbert Hubbard

354. “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

355. “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

356. “What people need and what they want may be very different.”

— Elbert Hubbard

357. “Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.”

— Elbert Hubbard

358. “Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.”

— Elbert Hubbard

359. “The artist needs no religion beyond his work.”

— Elbert Hubbard

360. “You gain by giving – so give sympathy and cheerful loyalty to the institution. Be proud of it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

361. “I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.”

— Elbert Hubbard

362. “An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right.”

— Elbert Hubbard

363. “The past is one evil less and one memory more.”

— Elbert Hubbard

364. “To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.”

— Elbert Hubbard

365. “Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.”

— Elbert Hubbard

366. “Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how.”

— Elbert Hubbard

367. “Play needs direction as well as work.”

— Elbert Hubbard

368. “Time is an illusion-to orators.”

— Elbert Hubbard

369. “Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.”

— Elbert Hubbard

370. “The thing we fear we bring to pass.”

— Elbert Hubbard

371. “People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.”

— Elbert Hubbard

372. “Habit is a form of exercise.”

— Elbert Hubbard

373. “Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

374. “Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.”

— Elbert Hubbard

375. “Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.”

— Elbert Hubbard

376. “Woman’s inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man’s ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.”

— Elbert Hubbard

377. “Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously.”

— Elbert Hubbard

378. “Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.”

— Elbert Hubbard

379. “The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.”

— Elbert Hubbard

380. “The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.”

— Elbert Hubbard

381. “Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”

— Elbert Hubbard

382. “The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.”

— Elbert Hubbard

383. “Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.”

— Elbert Hubbard

384. “Prophecy – To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.”

— Elbert Hubbard

385. “Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.”

— Elbert Hubbard

386. “The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.”

— Elbert Hubbard

387. “Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.”

— Elbert Hubbard

388. “Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.”

— Elbert Hubbard

389. “An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.”

— Elbert Hubbard

390. “Theology is Classified Superstition.”

— Elbert Hubbard

391. “I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I’ll not be a guest for less than a hundred.”

— Elbert Hubbard

392. “Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.”

— Elbert Hubbard

393. “No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?”

— Elbert Hubbard

394. “The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.”

— Elbert Hubbard

395. “The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.”

— Elbert Hubbard

396. “Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.”

— Elbert Hubbard

397. “Put yourself in the other man’s place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.”

— Elbert Hubbard

398. “Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.”

— Elbert Hubbard

399. “Would you make men better – set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.”

— Elbert Hubbard

400. “The hands that help are far better than the lips that pray.”

— Elbert Hubbard