Top 250 L. Ron Hubbard Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

2. “Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

3. “Communication is the universal solvent.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

4. “Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

5. “Morale is boosted to high highs by accomplishment. In fact, it can be demonstrated that production is the basis of morale.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

6. “If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn’t even have a future.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

7. “All the happiness you ever find lies in you.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

8. “Are you making life or is life making you?”

— L. Ron Hubbard

9. “To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

10. “The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

11. “If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he’s crazy.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

12. “A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

13. “The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

14. “Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

15. “A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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16. “The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

17. “There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

18. “The best way to know any future is to cause one.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

19. “It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

20. “A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one’s throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

21. “And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!”

— L. Ron Hubbard

22. “Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

23. “The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

24. “What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

25. “Boldness in itself is genius.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

26. “Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

27. “The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

28. “That which one fears becomes one’s master.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

29. “On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

30. “The test of true competence is the end result.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

31. “The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

32. “A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

33. “Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

34. “The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

35. “Life in its highest state is understanding.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

36. “The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

37. “Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

38. “Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

39. “In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

40. “Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

41. “The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People’s happiness is as great as they can create it.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

42. “To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

43. “Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

44. “When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

45. “Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

46. “As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life – and upon that depends their happiness.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

47. “Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

48. “The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

49. “What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

50. “True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one – and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.”

— L. Ron Hubbard