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Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 15

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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Self, Justice, Diversity

Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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

Country, Book, Reading

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

Art is nothing; it's a way.

Art, Way, Art Is

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Morality, Immorality

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

Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.

Struggle, Eye, Views

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

Advice, Bees, Sensible

Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

Beauty, Doe, Records

When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.

Dark, Men, Air

No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

Spiritual, Events, Spirit

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

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Respect, Errors, Fog

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.66, The Floating Press

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Punishment, Suspicion, Grows

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

When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

Believe, Evil, Drunk

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

Funny, Humor, Stupidity

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

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Emotional, Feelings, Action

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

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

Inspirational, Book, Men

"A Message to Garcia" (1899)

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

Wrath, Righteous, Temper

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

A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.

Courage, Past, Light

Elbert Hubbard (2012). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen”, p.8, tredition

All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

Jesus, Men, Gentleman

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

Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

Dream, Justice, Soul

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1910). “The Philistine”

An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right

Decision, Sometimes, Executives

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

People, Trying, Married

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

If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

Powerful, Prey, Ifs

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Memories, Past, Evil

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Tin Cans, Civilization, Tin

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

Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

Lying, Errors, Optimism

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

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