Top 100 Hubbard's Quotes
#1. The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.
Christian McBride
#2. When a woman feels the first grip of her child's dependence upon her, she has forever lost her freedom. If the child dies, a grave shackles her soul through life. If the child lives, the welfare of that child keeps perpetually between her and the sun.
Alice Moore Hubbard
#3. Change no man's religion, change no man's politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has and what he knows to the factual creation, within any political reference, of a civilization on Earth for the first time.
L. Ron Hubbard
#4. One grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is in her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one. And if he can 'defeat with great slaughter' his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.
Elbert Hubbard
#5. Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST ... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
#6. There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
Kin Hubbard
#7. Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.
L. Ron Hubbard
#8. Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.
L. Ron Hubbard
#9. The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.
Mick Fleetwood
#10. 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.
Elbert Hubbard
#11. I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#12. Or they'd listen, but they wouldn't care. No one would. Hearing about vacations is like hearing about dreams-no one cares except the person who's experienced them. Without tastes and scents and context, they're meaningless.
Kirsten Hubbard
#13. What do you think about when you can't sleep? Sometimes I think about the ocean. I can see it lapping on the shore, waves rolling in one after the other, washing over the sand, never stopping. That's what usually puts me to sleep.
Jennifer R. Hubbard
#15. I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.
Elbert Hubbard
#16. If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.
L. Ron Hubbard
#17. Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one's ability to decide and in one's decisions.
L. Ron Hubbard
#18. There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#19. A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
#20. I see more people all the time feeling something growing from within them to more fully realize their heart's desire, their desire to give more, to be more, to do more.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#21. The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.
Kin Hubbard
#22. Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.
Cal Hubbard
#23. She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led a sheltered life?"
I said I thought the description fairly apt.
Susan Hubbard
#24. We'd all like t'vote fer th'best man, but he's never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard
#25. My dad didn't find me - I found myself. So that's when I figured out that the only person who could take care of me was me.
Kirsten Hubbard
#26. What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.
Elbert Hubbard
#27. Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#28. The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead.
Glenn Hubbard
#29. Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
Elbert Hubbard
#30. Let's assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can place our attention upon this vision as a strange attractor to carry us through this critical transition?
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#31. It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard
#32. Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.
Kin Hubbard
#33. There's only one remedy for crime - get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!
L. Ron Hubbard
#34. Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
Elbert Hubbard
#35. We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#36. When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.
L. Ron Hubbard
#37. If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.
Kin Hubbard
#38. When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#39. "Christ" states that those who see themselves as "separate" and not "divine" hinder humanity's ability to spiritually evolve. Those who deny their own "divinity" are like "cancer cells" in the body of God.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#40. But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella's Prince Charming - other than he's a handsome prince?
Mandy Hubbard
#41. That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.
That to which he devotes energy, he finally has.
L. Ron Hubbard
#42. One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#43. Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.
Ray Wylie Hubbard
#44. If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
Kin Hubbard
#45. They're like the opposites poles of my personality. Mild-mannered, responsible Reese is who I used to be, while in-your-face Olivia's who I want to be - with a few sharp edges dulled.
Kirsten Hubbard
#46. It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Kin Hubbard
#47. One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.
L. Ron Hubbard
#48. Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
Elbert Hubbard
#49. The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.
L. Ron Hubbard
#50. I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.
Kin Hubbard
#51. The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.
Glenn Hubbard
#52. Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard
#54. Hearing about vacations is like hearing about dreams
no one cares except the person who's experienced them.
Kirsten Hubbard
#55. When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.
Kin Hubbard
#56. Living is having and following a purpose. That's all.
L. Ron Hubbard
#57. Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Kin Hubbard
#58. Bureaucracy is trouble everybody has. It's a system evolved so that nobody in it is ever responsible for anything.
L. Ron Hubbard
#59. Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization.
L. Ron Hubbard
#60. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
#61. I don't expect the U.S. and China to get into a trade war simply because I think there are good people on both sides who realize that that's not in either economy's interest.
Glenn Hubbard
#63. Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.
Jenna Miscavige Hill
#64. Whenever a few people are gathered with a spiritual impulse to connect, to resonate through the heart, to make a shift from their own ego to their essence, and then to connect to do whatever work in the world they are called to do, that's an evolutionary circle.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#65. The real issue for the public is to figure out which narrative do we want. We can have a bigger government, if that's the public's choice. It'll just require higher taxes on every American. Do you want that, or do you want smaller government, smaller taxes?
Glenn Hubbard
#66. 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
#67. A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.
Kin Hubbard
#68. There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.
Kin Hubbard
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]" from The Society of S (p. 137).
Susan Hubbard
#72. I know what it's like. To sabotage yourself. Nothing makes you hate yourself more than that.
Kirsten Hubbard
#73. It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.
Kin Hubbard
#74. The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
Kin Hubbard
#75. 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
#76. It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations
Kin Hubbard
#77. Read to your heart's content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content.
Jenny Hubbard
#78. Because - admit it - there's something perversely appealing about sitting all alone, feeling sorry for yourself, especially when the scenery's stunning and there's a party going on behind you.
Kirsten Hubbard
#80. The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves ... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.
L. Ron Hubbard
#81. Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy's when you also don't want them to have it.
Kirsten Hubbard
#83. If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.
Kin Hubbard
#84. It's not that I want to join in. It's just ... I want to want to, if that makes any sense. My time with Toby taught me to look both ways before attempting anything new. Until now, when even the suggestion of joining in makes me resist.
Kirsten Hubbard
#85. Hubbard obtained the land from Sylvester's widow.
John Grisham
#86. Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.
Kin Hubbard
#87. Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
L. Ron Hubbard
#88. God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
L. Ron Hubbard
#89. If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard
#90. There is no madder nation than Japan ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.
L. Ron Hubbard
#91. Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Kin Hubbard
#92. An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas.
L. Ron Hubbard
#93. Shouldn't you have today off? Isn't it Sunday?"
"I've a half day off ever' three days. I'll be out temorra afte'noon."
I snort. "A half day?"
God, that's ridiculous. She doesn't even get a single full day off? What is Alex, some kind of slave driver? Jeez.
Mandy Hubbard
#94. President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.
Glenn Hubbard
#95. Sometimes people simply believe the things because it's easier that way. But it doesn't make it the truth.
Mandy Hubbard
#96. Sometimes, people simply want to believe things because it's easier that way. But it doesn't make it the truth -Cole
Mandy Hubbard
#97. We are traveling down a path with no happy ending, and it's too late to turn around.
Mandy Hubbard
#98. It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard
#99. Introverts of the World Unite. We're Here. We're Uncomfortable. We Want to go Home.
S.W. Hubbard
#100. A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard
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