Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 16

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• 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.

  Elbert Hubbard

  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

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• If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Effort, Benefits

  Elbert Hubbard (2012). “A Message to Garcia”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe the Universe is planned for good.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, I Believe, Universe

  "Credo". "A Message to Garcia, and Thirteen Other Things". Book by Elbert Hubbard, p.6, 1901.

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• Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."

  Elbert Hubbard

  Moving, Broken, Done

  "Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of His Flock". The Philistine magazine, May 1913.

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• The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have
  always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sweet, Missing, Black

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

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• The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Swings, People, Doe

  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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• I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dollars, Guests, Fifty

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

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• Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Creation, Masterpiece

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• Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Dream, Fate

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• Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Women, Law, Yesterday

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine”

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• Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Philosophy, Assuming, Preaching

  "The Philistine". Book by Elbert Hubbard, October 1897.

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• It is only life and love that give love and life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life And Love, Giving, And Love

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

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• I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, Bills, Sin

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

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• Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

  Elbert Hubbard

  Moving, Men, Player

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• Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Opportunity, Lucky, Individual

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.31, Penguin

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• The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Real, Real Friends, Finest

  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.65, The Floating Press

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dream, Justice, Soul

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

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Powerful, Prey, Ifs

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• The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Tin Cans, Civilization, Tin

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

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• Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Struggle, Liberty, Four

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

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• Play needs direction as well as work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Play, Needs, Wells

  Elbert Hubbard (1905). “Little Journeys to Homes of Great Scientists ...: Copernicus. Galileo. Sir Isaac Newton. Humboldt. Sir William Herschel. Charles Darwin”

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• It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Law, Violence, Murder

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

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• You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
  You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Boys, College, Thinking

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• Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Public Opinion, Judgment, Discerning

  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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