Elbert Hubbard

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

— Elbert Hubbard

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

— Elbert Hubbard

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

— Elbert Hubbard

Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

— Elbert Hubbard

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would…

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their…

— Elbert Hubbard

I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time,…

— Elbert Hubbard

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

— Elbert Hubbard

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on…

— Elbert Hubbard

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else…

— Elbert Hubbard

“The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be”

— Elbert Hubbard

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

— Elbert Hubbard

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

— Elbert Hubbard

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

— Elbert Hubbard

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

— Elbert Hubbard

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

— Elbert Hubbard

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

— Elbert Hubbard

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

— Elbert Hubbard

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

When put to the test, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness

— Elbert Hubbard

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

— Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

— Elbert Hubbard

The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.

— Elbert Hubbard

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

— Elbert Hubbard

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

— Elbert Hubbard

The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the…

— Elbert Hubbard

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

— Elbert Hubbard

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

— Elbert Hubbard