Elbert Hubbard Quotes (page 3)

1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
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“Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.”
Giving
“Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.”
Religion
“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”
VerifiedThe Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923) · evidenceFailure
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
Understanding
“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
Mind
“One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.”
Plays
“A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.”
Committees and Meetings
“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
Work
“Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”
Character
“The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
Silence
“If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.”
Friends and Friendship
“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”
VerifiedThe Motto Book (1907) · evidenceExplanations
“When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.”
Money
“Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.”
Sin
“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.”
Competition
“There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.”
Pride
“If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.”
Anticipation
“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.”
Parents and Parenting
“The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.”
Gambling
“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.”
Work
“Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.”
Failure
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.”
Decisions
“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”
Memory
“It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”
Ability
“The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.”
Happiness
“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
Books and Reading
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
VerifiedA Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911) · evidenceHumankind
“Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.”
Genius
“I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
Appreciation