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Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 10

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Live truth instead of professing it.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Truth, Character, Hypocrite

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1908). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

Lying, Stupid, Men

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.14, The Floating Press

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Loyalty, Men, Thinking

Sir Arthur Helps, John W. Ferguson, William T. Fenton, Francis Bacon, Elbert Hubbard (1913). “The Transaction of Business”

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

Wheels, Wealth, Used

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

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

Attitude, Two, Grouches

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

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

Happiness, Heartache, Joy

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

Life, Eagles, Growing

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Agreement, Long, Lost Friendship

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Strength, Long, Mind

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

There is no failure except the failure of trying.

Trying, Advertising, No Failure

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Education, Teacher, Teaching

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

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

Law, Public Opinion, Opinion

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

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

Mind, Pockets, Study

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Inferiority, Literature

"The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days".

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.

Beautiful, Art, Block

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine”

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Death, Rivalry, Traders

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

Home, Ignorance, America

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

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Love, Inspirational, Life

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

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Competition, Paradise, Prison

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

Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

Men, Arriving, Reason

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1905). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

Self Esteem, Men, Average

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

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

Christian, Islands, Imagination

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

Inspirational, Ideas, Brain

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Loyalty, Loyal Customers, Pounds

Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Time, Stress, Obnoxious

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