Top 461 Quotes & Sayings by Elbert Hubbard - Page 3

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

As we grow better, we meet better people.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

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

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

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

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Growth is often a painful process.

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.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

No matter how long you live, die young.

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.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

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

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.