Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 15

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• If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Spiritual, Thinking, Make You Think

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• Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
  
  Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Horse, Half, Habit

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• Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Grief, Expression, Laughing

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.104, The Floating Press

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Country, Book, Reading

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

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• Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Art is nothing; it's a way.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Art, Way, Art Is

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• Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

  Elbert Hubbard

  Morality, Immorality

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

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• Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Struggle, Eye, Views

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• No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Advice, Bees, Sensible

  Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

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• Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beauty, Doe, Records

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• When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dark, Men, Air

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• No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Spiritual, Events, Spirit

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

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• When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Punishment, Suspicion, Grows

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

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• Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

  Elbert Hubbard

  Respect, Errors, Fog

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.66, The Floating Press

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• When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, Evil, Drunk

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• The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Humor, Stupidity

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

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• Allow motion to equal emotion.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Emotional, Feelings, Action

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

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• It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Book, Men

  "A Message to Garcia" (1899)

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• Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wrath, Righteous, Temper

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

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• A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Courage, Past, Light

  Elbert Hubbard (2012). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen”, p.8, tredition

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• If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Powerful, Prey, Ifs

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• The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Tin Cans, Civilization, Tin

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). “The Philistine”

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• I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dollars, Guests, Fifty

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

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• Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

  Elbert Hubbard

  Strong, Men, Doubt

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

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• The past is one evil less and one memory more.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Memories, Past, Evil

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