99 Quotes By Elbert Hubbard


The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Elbert Hubbard on teacher

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

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

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard on time

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 time

Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard on truth

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard on wisdom

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard on work

We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard on work

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

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

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard on work

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

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard on criticism

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard on ignorance

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard on love

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

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Elbert Hubbard on punishment

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard on risk