All Elbert Hubbard Quotes
- I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up Climbing
- As we grow better, we meet better people. Better
- Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular… Able
- Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. Corroborated
- An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love. American
- History: gossip well told. Gossip
- Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest… All
- If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an… Along
- 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… Anyone
- 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… Academic
- I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me. Devil
- If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all? Act
- I believe the Universe is planned for good. Believe
- 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… Broken
- Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself. Doe
- Piety is the tinfoil of pretense. Inspirational
- The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear. Club
- 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. Ability
- A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.'' Eats
- All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of… All
- Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear. All
- All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity. All
- The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person… Achieved
- Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. Absorb
- God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion. Doe