Elbert Hubbard Quotes on Man (34 Quotes)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.

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

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time w

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

The hundred point man is one who is true to every trust who keeps his word who is loyal to the firm that employs him who does not listen for insults nor look for slights who carries a civil tongue in his head who is polite to strangers without b

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

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and finds it bad - including himself and Nature

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

An executive a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

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

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.

Failure - The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.