105 quotes
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
The Motto Book (1907)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
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.
Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved.
It is only life and love that give love and life.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.
The Note Book (1927)
Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.
Electrical Review (1895)
Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
There does not seem to be anything to do.
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
The highest reward that God gives us for good work, is the ability to do better work.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)