Elbert Hubbard
» Achievement » “God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.”
» Action » “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”
» Action » “Allow motion to equal emotion.”
» Anticipation » “If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.”
» Appreciation » “I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
» Attitude » “We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”
» Books and Reading » “This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
» Character » “Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”
» Charity » “Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.”
» Civilization » “The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.”
» Committees and Meetings » “A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.”
» Competition » “Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed — there’s so little competition.”
» Compromise » “It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man.”
» Conflict » “What people need and what they want may be very different.”
» Cooperation » “Put yourself in the other man’s place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.”
» Critics and Criticism » “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
» Death and Dying » “To stop sinning suddenly.”
» Decisions » “It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.”
» Dignity » “Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.”
» Education » “You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.”
» Executives » “An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.”
» Existence » “Every life is its own excuse for being.”
» Expectation » “We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.”
» Experts » “One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.”
» Explanations » “Never explain — your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
» Failure » “A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.”
» Failure » “Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.”
» Failure » “There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.”
» Faith » “The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”
» Freedom » “Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.”
» Gambling » “The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.”
» Genius » “Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent — the power to do the right thing the first time.”
» Giving » “Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.”
» Glutton » “A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ”lives well.””
» Gossip » “Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.”
» Grammar » “Grammar is the grave of letters.”
» Habit » “Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.”
» Habit » “Habit is a form of exercise”
» Happiness » “The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.”
» Humankind » “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
» Ideas » “The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.”
» Influence » “He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.”
» Intelligence and Intellectuals » “Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.”
» Joy » “One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.”
» Juries » “The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.”
» Laughter » “Laughter is higher than all pain.”
» Life and Living » “Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.”
» Losers and Losing » “The cheerful loser is the winner.”
» Love » “Life in abundance comes only through great love.”
» Love » “Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.”
» Love » “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
» Luck » “Luck is tenacity of purpose.”
» Marriage » “Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.”
» Memory » “A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”
» Methods » “Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”
» Mind » “Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
» Miracles » “An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.”
» Mistakes » “The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.”
» Money » “When someone says it ain’t the money, but its the principal of the thing, it’s the money.”
» Money » “Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.”
» Music » “Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.”
» Neighbors » “Your neighbor is the man who needs you.”
» Parents and Parenting » “Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.”
» Perseverance » “How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?”
» Pessimism » “A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”
» Planning » “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.”
» Plays » “Play needs direction as well as work.”
» Poetry and Poets » “A person born with an instinct for poverty.”
» Preparation » “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today”
» Pride » “There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.”
» Problems » “The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.”
» Progress » “The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
» Quality » “If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.”
» Religion » “Give us a religion that will help us to live — we can die without assistance.”
» Secrets » “Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.”
» Service » “Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.”
» Silence » “The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
» Sin » “Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.”
» Spirit and Spirituality » “Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.”
» Stupidity » “Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
» Success » “He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.”
» Success » “The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.”
» Suffering » “If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.”
» Teachers and Teaching » “The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”
» Truth » “Live truth instead of professing it.”
» Understanding » “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
» Vacation » “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
» Victory » “Victory; a matter of staying power.”
» Work » “The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
» Work » “Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.”
» Work » “Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.”
» Work » “Blessed is that man who has found his work.”
» Work » “We work to become, not to acquire.”
