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Inspirational Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

71 Inspirational quotes by Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard urges people to stop making excuses and start creating good work. He says progress comes from using experience wisely, and that the real value lies in what you yourself think. He also notes that lasting friendships can exist even when friends are apart.

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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

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Postponement: The father of failure.

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The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

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Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

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Growth is often a painful process.

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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

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History: gossip well told.

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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

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Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

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If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

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Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.

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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you…

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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part,…

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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from…

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Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

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

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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will…

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When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a…

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Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

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Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

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Success consists in the climb.

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Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

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Don't make excuses, make good.

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Play needs direction as well as work.

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The cure for grief is motion.

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History: a collection of epitaphs.

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God is good, there is no devil but fear.

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In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.

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Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

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Action is thought tempered by illusion.

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Habit: The great economizer of energy.

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Art is nothing; it's a way.

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There is no failure except the failure of trying.

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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

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I believe the Universe is planned for good.

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

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

Art is nothing; it's a way.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”

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

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought…

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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference…

Every knock is a boost.

What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

Don't make excuses, make good.

What people need and what they want may be very different… Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.