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Elbert Hubbard

Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
— Elbert Hubbard friends
The sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
— Elbert Hubbard art
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.
— Elbert Hubbard world
is often only theof making continuous . The line betweenandis 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 when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. As the tide goes clear out, so it comes clear in. In business sometimes prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
— Elbert Hubbard hope
Most Authors cringe and flatter and Fish for compliments. If they fail to get Applause, they say the World is a Scurvy Place and those who dwell therein a Dirty Lot: if they succeed, they give thanks to Nobody, saying they got only what their Meritt entitles them to. But I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
— Elbert Hubbard men
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
— Elbert Hubbard education
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.
— Elbert Hubbard courage
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Elbert Hubbard work
Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
— Elbert Hubbard life
Life is just one damn thing after another.
— Elbert Hubbard life
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
— Elbert Hubbard business
It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity — of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
— Elbert Hubbard art
Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
— Elbert Hubbard self
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
— Elbert Hubbard person
A genius is a man who takes the lemons that Fate hands him and starts a lemonade stand with them.
— Elbert Hubbard art
If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.
— Elbert Hubbard time
Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, "I have done it."
— Elbert Hubbard youth
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
— Elbert Hubbard hate
Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
— Elbert Hubbard
, first published 22 February 1899, in the March 1899 issue of Philistine
— Elbert Hubbard
By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land.
— Elbert Hubbard death
The point I wish to make is this: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 and 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 thing — "Carry a message to Garcia!"
— Elbert Hubbard death
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
— Elbert Hubbard men
Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village — in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly — the man who can "Carry a Message to Garcia."
— Elbert Hubbard world
As published in A Message to Garcia, and Thirteen Other Things (1901), p. 6
— Elbert Hubbard age
I believe in the Blessed Trinity of Father, Mother and Child.
— Elbert Hubbard believe
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
— Elbert Hubbard art
All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists.was an anarchist.
— Elbert Hubbard men
; also in Jesus Was An Anarchist (1910)
— Elbert Hubbard jesus
The true Anarchist decries all influences save those of love and reason. Ideas are his only arms. Being an Anarchist I am also a Socialist.
— Elbert Hubbard love
I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself. Prizefighters die young, gourmands get the gout, hate hurts worse the man who nurses it, and all selfishness robs the mind of its divine insight, and cheats the soul that would know. Mind alone is eternal. He, watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps. My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.
— Elbert Hubbard faith
There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised…
— Elbert Hubbard people
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
— Elbert Hubbard mistakes
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
— Elbert Hubbard men
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
— Elbert Hubbard failure
An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
— Elbert Hubbard anger
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
— Elbert Hubbard religion
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
— Elbert Hubbard man
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard: Mottoes, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments (1927)
— Elbert Hubbard men
It is only life and love that give love and life.
— Elbert Hubbard love
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
— Elbert Hubbard life
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
— Elbert Hubbard god
If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.
— Elbert Hubbard sin
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 women
I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish, but this much I will say: The distinctively modern custom of marital bundling is the doom of chivalry and death of passion. It wears all tender sentiment to a napless warp, and no wonder is it that the novelist, without he has a seared and bitter heart, hesitates to follow the couple beyond the church door. There is no greater reproach to our civilization than the sight of men joking the boy whose heart is pierced by the first rays of a life-giving sun, or of our expecting a girl to blush because she is twice God's child today she was yesterday.
— Elbert Hubbard life
The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
— Elbert Hubbard life
To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise — and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
— Elbert Hubbard men
Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate — you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
— Elbert Hubbard business
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
— Elbert Hubbard people
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 men
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
— Elbert Hubbard life
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 men
When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say "Canary!" — he'll take offense.
— Elbert Hubbard you
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
— Elbert Hubbard education
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
— Elbert Hubbard art
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
— Elbert Hubbard man
Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life.
— Elbert Hubbard life
Making men live in three worlds at once — past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
— Elbert Hubbard religion
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
— Elbert Hubbard time
Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
— Elbert Hubbard
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
— Elbert Hubbard civilization
There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
— Elbert Hubbard success
The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.
— Elbert Hubbard living
To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over.
— Elbert Hubbard art
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
— Elbert Hubbard art
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 truth
Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.
— Elbert Hubbard you
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
— Elbert Hubbard life
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
— Elbert Hubbard positive
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
— Elbert Hubbard love
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
— Elbert Hubbard work
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
— Elbert Hubbard hope
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
— Elbert Hubbard thought
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
— Elbert Hubbard you
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
— Elbert Hubbard freedom
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
— Elbert Hubbard men
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
— Elbert Hubbard man
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
— Elbert Hubbard art
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
— Elbert Hubbard friends
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
— Elbert Hubbard desire
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
— Elbert Hubbard criticism
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
— Elbert Hubbard true
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
— Elbert Hubbard life
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
— Elbert Hubbard self
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
— Elbert Hubbard teaching
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
— Elbert Hubbard memory
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
— Elbert Hubbard supernatural
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
— Elbert Hubbard beautiful
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
— Elbert Hubbard time
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
— Elbert Hubbard words
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
— Elbert Hubbard art
Do your work with all your heart and you will succeed.
— Elbert Hubbard art
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.
— Elbert Hubbard life
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
— Elbert Hubbard love
The biggest mistake you could ever make is being too afraid to make one.
— Elbert Hubbard you
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
— Elbert Hubbard stupidity
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
— Elbert Hubbard life

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