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Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 14

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Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Religion, Obvious, Mystic

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

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

Running, Men, Vacation

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

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

Truth, Cease

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

Men, Wish, Heroism

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

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

Giving, Religion, Atheism

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Men, Too Much, Rich

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

Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

Men, Buttons, Matter

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

Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.

Self, Laughing, Self Control

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

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

Men, Succeed, Imitation

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

God is good, there is no devil but fear.

Fear, Devil

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

Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.

Hate, Men, Needs

Elbert Hubbard (1904). “This Then is Consecrated Lives: Being Essays”

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

Ambition, Happy Marriage, World

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

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

Soul, Dawn, Stuff

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

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

Horse, Half, Habit

If I supply you with 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.

Spiritual, Thinking, Make You Think

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

Why Not, Individual, Institutions

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

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

Men, Mediocrity, Individual

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

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Communication, Waiting, Attention

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

Gossip, Vices, Enjoyed

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Inspirational, Life, Art

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.74, The Floating Press

If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

Men, Names, Heaven

Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.56, Penguin

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

Inspirational, Knowledge, Essence

History: gossip well told.

History, Gossip, Wells

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

Grief, Expression, Laughing

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.104, The Floating Press

There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

Divorce, Three, Sides

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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