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. Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
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#5. If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
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#6. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many
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#7. The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
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#8. Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
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#9. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
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#10. The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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#11. The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
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#12. If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
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#13. All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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#14. Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
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#16. Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
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#17. Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
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#18. Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.
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#22. 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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#23. A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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#24. Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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#28. The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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#29. I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
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#30. In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
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#31. He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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#32. Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
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#33. The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.
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#34. Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
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#35. If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
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#36. The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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#37. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
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#38. Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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#39. This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker
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#40. One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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#41. Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
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#42. 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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#43. Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
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#44. The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.
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#45. Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.
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#46. 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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#47. If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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#48. Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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#49. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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#50. A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who 'lives well.'
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#51. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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#53. The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be
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#54. Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
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#56. Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
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#57. A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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#58. No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
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#60. Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.
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#61. Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.
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#62. No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?
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#63. Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion
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#64. There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
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#66. To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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#67. An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
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#68. What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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#71. The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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#73. So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
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#74. We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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#75. Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.
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#76. If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
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#77. Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.
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#78. It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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#79. 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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#80. Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
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#81. The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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#82. Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
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#85. Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
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#86. The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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#87. A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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#88. To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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#90. 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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#91. Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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#92. No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
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#94. The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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#95. Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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#96. The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
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#98. Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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#99. The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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#100. There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.
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