Elbert Hubbard Quotes (228 Quotes)


    I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred

    Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

    The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

    Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.



    The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

    A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.


    The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.


    Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader

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

    Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

    Don't lose faith in humanity think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

    If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

    The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

    The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

    Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

    Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced

    One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

    To know when to be generous and when to be firm this is wisdom.

    If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

    It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

    A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

    If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate

    Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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




    One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

    Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe


    Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

    The point I wish to make is this President William McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia Rowan took the letter did not ask, Where is he at By the Eternal there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies do the thingCarry a message to Garcia


    Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.

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

    The brain is a commodity . . . used to fertilize ideas.

    Experience is the name everyone gives his mistakes.

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

    Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

    If I supply you a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

    Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.

    Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion


    If you can not answer a man's argument, all it not lost you can still call him vile names.

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


    A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.


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