Elbert Hubbard Quotes (228 Quotes)

To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even

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

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible

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

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

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

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

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

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

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

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

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.

Righteous indignation Your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

A good man in an exclusive heaven would be in hell

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.

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

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradict all you have said before

Few explanations ever explained the necessity of making one.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

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.

Don't make excuses--make good.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives

Allow motion to equal emotion.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The art of winning in business is in working hard not taking things too seriously.

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

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

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

The only way to help yourself is to help others.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

If you can make people kind, not merely respectable, the problem will be solved