Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Page 7

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• The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

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  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

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  Failure, Men, 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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• Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

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  Motivational, Effort, Genius

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

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• Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

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  Life, Eagles, Growing

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• The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

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  Lying, Greatness, Criticism

  "A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings".

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• The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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  Determination, Persistence, Hands

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• Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

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  Life, Laughter, Real

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

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  Literature, Anticipation, Remember

  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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• The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

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  Men, Stupidity, 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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• The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

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  Work, Heart, Hands

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• Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

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  Time, Power, Genius

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• Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

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  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”

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• It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

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  Agreement, Long, Lost Friendship

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• We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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  Leadership, Wisdom, Attitude

  Elbert Hubbard (1898). “As it Seems to Me: Being Some Philistine Essays Concerning Several Things”

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• When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

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  Anger, Men, Giving

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

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

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  Greatness, Men, Mediocre

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• Library: A place where the dead lie.

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  Lying, Library

  Elbert Hubbard (2017). “The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days.”, p.28, Litres

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• Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.

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  Lying, Believe, Mind

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• Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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  Beautiful, Art, Science

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

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• It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

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  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

  Elbert Hubbard “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Complete 14 Volumes”, Library of Alexandria

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• Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

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  Math, Logic, Reasoning

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

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• 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.

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  Art, Memories, Air

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

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

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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

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• Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

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  Competition, Paradise, Prison

  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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• Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

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  Love, Love Is, Blind

  Elbert Hubbard (2012). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors”, p.80, tredition

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