Top 100 Elbert Hubbard Quotes
#1. Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it
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#2. The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
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#3. The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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#4. If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
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#5. Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
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#6. Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
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#7. A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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#8. The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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#9. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)
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#10. Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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#11. Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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#12. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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#13. A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who 'lives well.'
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#14. A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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#15. No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
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#16. There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
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#17. To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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#18. An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
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#19. What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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#21. The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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#22. 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.
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#23. Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
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#24. Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.
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#25. No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
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#26. The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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#27. There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.
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#28. Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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#29. Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
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#30. Failure
The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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#33. Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
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#35. If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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#37. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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#38. Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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#39. The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
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#40. You gain by giving - so give sympathy and cheerful loyalty to the institution. Be proud of it.
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#41. Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
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#42. Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
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#43. Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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#45. I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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#46. The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.
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#47. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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#49. Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
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#50. Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked
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#51. Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.
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#53. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love ... I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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#54. The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
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#55. Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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#56. The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
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#57. God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
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#59. There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.
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#60. A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join.
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#61. Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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#62. 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.
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#63. All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
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#64. The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.
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#65. We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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#66. Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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#68. Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
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#71. Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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#72. Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
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#73. A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
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#75. Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.
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#77. Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
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#78. Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
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#79. Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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#83. The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.
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#85. Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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#86. The hands that help are far better than the lips that pray.
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#88. Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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#89. If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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#90. Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
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#91. Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
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#92. Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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#93. The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
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#94. A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.
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#95. It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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#96. Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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#97. Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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#98. Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
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#99. The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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