Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 7

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• 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.

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  Anger, Men, Giving

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

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

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  Inspirational, Men, Volunteer

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• What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

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  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

  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.98, The Floating Press

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• The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

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  Lying, Greatness, Criticism

  "A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings".

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• Nothing is permanent but change.

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  Change, Permanent

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

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• Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

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  Failure, Men, Doe

  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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• As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

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  Success, Dog, Cat

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

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

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  Wise, Opportunity, People

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

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• Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

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  Kids, Diversity, Tolerance

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

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• Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Kindness

  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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• Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1927.

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• An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.

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  Play, Laughing, And Love

  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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• Library: A place where the dead lie.

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  Lying, Library

  Elbert Hubbard (2017). “The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days.”, p.28, Litres

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• The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

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  Men, Stupidity, Doe

  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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• Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

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  Men, Thinking, Doe

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

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  Secret, May, Persons

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• To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

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  Greatness, Men, Mediocre

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• Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

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  Time, Power, Genius

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• Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

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  Men, Devil, Worst

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

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• Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

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  Love, Art, Fall

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• We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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  Leadership, Wisdom, Attitude

  Elbert Hubbard (1898). “As it Seems to Me: Being Some Philistine Essays Concerning Several Things”

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• It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

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  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Economic

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia”

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• Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.

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  Lying, Believe, Mind

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• I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

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  Believe, Light, Add

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

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