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Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 9

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Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

Motivational, Effort, Genius

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

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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

Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.

Hands, Atheism, Slavery

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

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

Believe, Men, Average

The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest Volume XI, July 1900 (p. 36)

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

Work, Giving, Rewards

Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

Victory; a matter of staying power.

Power, Victory, Matter

Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of ...”

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Greatness, Men, Mediocre

Don't make excuses, make good.

Sports, Failure, Commitment

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

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

Home, Charity

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

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Happiness, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Laughter, Pain, Higher

To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.

Exercise, Thinking, Achievement

"The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, p. 64, 1927.

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

Time, Attitude, Character

Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.

Prophecy, Happens

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Time, Influence

Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers ...: no. 1. Booker T. Washington. no. 2. Thomas Arnold. no. 3. Erasmus. no. 4. Hypatia. no. 5. St. Benedict. no. 6. Mary Baker Eddy”

Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

Jealousy, Cold, Sunny

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

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Generosity, Half, Stinginess

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

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

Beautiful, Death, Men

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

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Illusion, Pursuit, Possession

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

If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

Elbert Hubbard (1929). “Advertising and Advertisements”

When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.

Wise, Men, Weak Man

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

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

Education, Work, Lying

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

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Prejudice, Logic, Used

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

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Religion, Desire, Unseen

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1913). “The Philistine”

War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

Country, War, Pride

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

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