Elbert Hubbard quotes

“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Live truth instead of professing it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Men are only as great as they are kind.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

— 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

“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“We are not punished for our sins, but by them.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Fear clogs faith liberates.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Initiative is doing the right things without being told.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Life is just one damned thing after another.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— 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

“No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.”

— Elbert Hubbard