99 Quotes By Elbert Hubbard


The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Elbert Hubbard on love

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert Hubbard on love

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Elbert Hubbard on marriage

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard on men

Men are only as great as they are kind.
Elbert Hubbard on men

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Elbert Hubbard on men

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

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard on morning

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard on motivational

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert Hubbard on patience

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard on positive

We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard on religion

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Elbert Hubbard on science

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Elbert Hubbard on science

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard on strength

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard on success

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard on success

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert Hubbard on success

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard on success

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Elbert Hubbard on success