Elbert Hubbard Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The love we give away is the only love we keep.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Valentines Day, Kindness

  Elbert Hubbard, Felix Shay (1912). “The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation”

• 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.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Romantic, Giving

• The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Work, Giving, Rewards

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Men, Volunteer

• When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Anger, Men, Giving

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

• If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Loyalty, Men, Thinking

  Sir Arthur Helps, John W. Ferguson, William T. Fenton, Francis Bacon, Elbert Hubbard (1913). “The Transaction of Business”

• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Disappointment, Heartache, Giving

• Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Being Strong, Men, Giving

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

• Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Keeping Secrets, Giving, Secret

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

• I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!

  Elbert Hubbard

  Uplifting, People, Giving

• The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wise, Opportunity, People

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

• The only way to retain love is to give it away.

  Elbert Hubbard

  True Love, Falling In Love, Love Is

• Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Giving, Religion, Atheism

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Giving, Kind

• It is only life and love that give love and life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life And Love, Giving, And Love

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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