Elbert Hubbard Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

• Men are only as great as they are kind.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Literature, Kind

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “Little journeys to the homes of great musicians”

• It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Greed, Literature, Want

  Elbert Hubbard (1909). “The Doctors: A Satire in Four Seizures”

• The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  "Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers". Volume XXII,

• Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Friendship, Credit, Literature

• The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

• So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Peace, Government

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

• Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

  Elbert Hubbard

  People, Heaven, Literature

  Elbert Hubbard, Charles Carroll Albertson (1909). “Joint Debate Hubbard-Albertson: Question: Resolved "That Christianity is Declining."”

• Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Faith, Freedom

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

• Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Freedom, Tyrants

  "A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of 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

  Agreement, Long, Lost Friendship

• If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Men, Names

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Hope, Literature

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

• A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Women, Doubt, Literature

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

• A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Running, Fighting, Men

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible

• Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mind, Literature, Littles

  Thousand and One Epigrams (1911) p. 133

• Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dream, Hope, Inspiration

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

• 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

• Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Heart, Optimistic, Optimism

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

• There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Leadership, Inspiration, Literature

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written”

• Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Literature, Dies

• If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Literature, Anticipation, Remember

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Risk, Done

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Literature, Libertarian, Sin

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

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