Elbert Hubbard
Found 105 thoughts of Elbert Hubbard
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is good work today.
Elbert Hubbard
Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
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
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard
If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
Elbert Hubbard
Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.
Elbert Hubbard
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.
Elbert Hubbard
Charity is a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Elbert Hubbard
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert Hubbard
If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard
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
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Elbert Hubbard
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
Elbert Hubbard
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
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Elbert Hubbard
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard
