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Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 8

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Life, Success, Justice

Philistine Dec. 1909, p. 32. The saying is often attributed to Frank Ward

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Math, Logic, Reasoning

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

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Change, Business, Men

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1909). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Science, Men, Done

"More Random Walks in Science". Book by Robert L. Weber, p. 109, 1982.

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

Nursing, Medicine, Nurse

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.

Art, Memories, Air

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

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

"Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers". Volume XXII,

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.

Success, Hope, Failure

Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

People, Heaven, Literature

Elbert Hubbard, Charles Carroll Albertson (1909). “Joint Debate Hubbard-Albertson: Question: Resolved "That Christianity is Declining."”

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

Fate, Compromise, Life Is

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

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

Art, Business, Winning

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Art, Pain, Successful

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Literature

Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.40, Penguin

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Funny, Sarcastic, Optimistic

"The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1927.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Piety, Pretense

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

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Running, Fighting, Men

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Enthusiasm, Dignity, Hills

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

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

Success, Secret, Victory

Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

God, Philosophy, Atheism

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

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Happiness, Gratitude, Way

Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!

Men, Evil, And Love

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Literature, Libertarian, Sin

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

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

Men, Example, Governing

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

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Sports, Football, Agriculture

Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

Sweet, Secret, Age

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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