Elbert Hubbard quotes and words of wisdom

"Many a man"s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
Found in the topic Character.

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."
Found in the topic Ability.

"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination."
Found in the topic Art.

"If I supply you 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."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Work to become, not to acquire."
Found in the topic Constitution.

"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."
Found in the topic Work.

"Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life."
Found in the topic Life.

"The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work."
Found in the topic Rest.

"A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him."
Found in the topic Marriage.

"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience."
Found in the topic Factory.

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
Found in the topic Decency.

"Live truth instead of professing it."
Found in the topic Live.

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."
Found in the topic Optimism.

"The man who has no problems is out of the game."
Found in the topic Problem.

"If you can"t answer a man"s argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."
Found in the topic Argument.

"The art of winning in business is in working hard ? not taking things too seriously."
Found in the topic Business.

"This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."
Found in the topic Book.

"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them."
Found in the topic Action.

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Found in the topic Writing.

"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."
Found in the topic Mind.

Interesting Quotes

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.Leo Tolstoy - Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)

But did thee feel the earth move?Ernest Hemingway - US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)