Elbert Hubbard

Found 105 thoughts of Elbert Hubbard

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Elbert Hubbard

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Elbert Hubbard

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Elbert Hubbard

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Elbert Hubbard

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.

Elbert Hubbard

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Elbert Hubbard

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Elbert Hubbard

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Elbert Hubbard

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

Elbert Hubbard

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Elbert Hubbard

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulus--the digitalis of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Elbert Hubbard

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Elbert Hubbard

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is a habit - cultivate it.

Elbert Hubbard

Every life is its own excuse for being.

Elbert Hubbard

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them; power flows to the man who knows how.

Elbert Hubbard

The cure for grief is motion.

Elbert Hubbard

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Elbert Hubbard

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

Elbert Hubbard

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Elbert Hubbard

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Elbert Hubbard
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