Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Theology is classified superstition.
I believe the Universe is planned for good.
Babies are the dice of destiny.
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
If you would have friends, be one.
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.
Think twice before you speak and then talk to yourself.
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself.
Truth lies at the end of a circle.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbours.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
It does not make much difference what a person studies; all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate — you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
