
Top 100 Hubbard Quotes
#1. It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations
Kin Hubbard
#2. Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it
Elbert Hubbard
#3. So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
L. Ron Hubbard
#4. Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.
L. Ron Hubbard
#5. Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard
#6. Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.
L. Ron Hubbard
#7. Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new ... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.
Kirsten Hubbard
#8. There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.
Kin Hubbard
#9. 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.
Elbert Hubbard
#10. Like I told you on Thanksgiving, pretending is a lousy way to get through life.
Jennifer R. Hubbard
#11. Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
Elbert Hubbard
#12. Until it has scared you with its endlessness, sky is just sky.
Jenny Hubbard
#13. If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
Elbert Hubbard
#14. The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
L. Ron Hubbard
#16. It doesn't give me displeasure to hear of a virgin being raped. The lot of women is to be fornicated.
L. Ron Hubbard
#17. If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
Kin Hubbard
#18. Wanderlust is like itchy feet. It's when you can't settle down. But Wanderlove is much deeper than that ... it's a compulsion. It's the difference between lust and love.
Kirsten Hubbard
#19. Now we notice that Mars doesn't have any atmosphere either and won't support life. In spite of the fact that it turns green and red and purple with the seasons, it doesn't support life.
L. Ron Hubbard
#20. The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
Kin Hubbard
#21. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many
Elbert Hubbard
#22. The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
Elbert Hubbard
#23. About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.
Kin Hubbard
#24. Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
#25. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
#26. It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical.
L. Ron Hubbard
#27. One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.
Kin Hubbard
#28. The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
Elbert Hubbard
#29. It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.
Kin Hubbard
#30. The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.
L. Ron Hubbard
#31. Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.
Ruth Hubbard
#32. The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
Elbert Hubbard
#33. I know what it's like. To sabotage yourself. Nothing makes you hate yourself more than that.
Kirsten Hubbard
#34. If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard
#35. Force yourself to laugh and you'll soon find something to laugh about. A being causes his own feelings. Splurge on it!
L. Ron Hubbard
#36. 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.
Elbert Hubbard
#37. When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#38. There are vistas never dreamed of, there are joys never even known, there are glories no past glory ever surpassed. These wait for you but only if you accept my legacy and help bring these things about.
L. Ron Hubbard
#39. Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules ... data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.
L. Ron Hubbard
#40. University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.
Kin Hubbard
#41. The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Kin Hubbard
#42. The world can only be redeemed through action
movement
motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.
Alice Moore Hubbard
#43. Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
Elbert Hubbard
#44. You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on ... which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process because he doesn't know why he goes through all these dances ... and why he feels so barbarous ...
L. Ron Hubbard
#45. If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
Pat Metheny
#46. The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
Cal Hubbard
#48. Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
Kin Hubbard
#50. 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.
Elbert Hubbard
#51. 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.
Elbert Hubbard
#52. When you're three, you don't draw what you see
you draw upon your imagination. Nobody tells you to stop putting wings on people, unless you have a most unfortunate preschool teacher. You are intoxicated by your own magic.
Kirsten Hubbard
#53. Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
Kin Hubbard
#54. I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.
Alice Moore Hubbard
#55. No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.
Kin Hubbard
#56. Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
Elbert Hubbard
#57. What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]" from The Society of S (p. 137).
Susan Hubbard
#59. As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Kin Hubbard
#61. As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.
L. Ron Hubbard
#62. Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.
Kin Hubbard
#63. 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.
Elbert Hubbard
#64. A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
L. Ron Hubbard
#65. Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.
L. Ron Hubbard
#66. 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.
Elbert Hubbard
#68. Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Elbert Hubbard
#69. There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.
Kin Hubbard
#70. The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.
L. Ron Hubbard
#71. A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
#72. Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.
L. Ron Hubbard
#73. A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.
L. Ron Hubbard
#74. Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
Kin Hubbard
#75. Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
Elbert Hubbard
#76. Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
Kin Hubbard
#78. One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
L. Ron Hubbard
#79. Bargain ... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
Kin Hubbard
#83. The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
Elbert Hubbard
#84. You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.
Jenny Hubbard
#85. I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
Elbert Hubbard
#86. A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.
Kin Hubbard
#87. In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
Elbert Hubbard
#88. You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.
L. Ron Hubbard
#89. He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
#90. Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
L. Ron Hubbard
#91. 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.
Elbert Hubbard
#92. Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.
Kin Hubbard
#93. The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.
Elbert Hubbard
#94. Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard
#95. 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.
Elbert Hubbard
#96. Two good indicators of revealed preferences are things the people tend to value a lot: time and money. If you look at how they spend their time and how they spend their money, you can infer quite a lot about their real preferences.
Douglas W. Hubbard
#97. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard
#98. The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard
#99. Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.
L. Ron Hubbard
#100. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
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