Elbert Hubbard
A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.Collection: Secret
The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Anger
The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.Collection: Leadership
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.Collection: Education
Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.Collection: Men
Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.Collection: Love
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.Collection: Ambition
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.Collection: Encouragement
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.Collection: Business
The cure for grief is motion.Collection: Inspirational
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.Collection: Inspirational
Growth is often a painful process.Collection: Growth
Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.Collection: Men
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.Collection: Strong
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Life
Habit: The great economizer of energy.Collection: Energy
You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.Collection: Squares
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.Collection: Swings
Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.Collection: Lawyer
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."Collection: Moving
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?Collection: Men
I believe the Universe is planned for good.Collection: Believe
No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?Collection: Book
It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.Collection: Records
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.Collection: Book
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.Collection: Dollars
Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?Collection: Men
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.Collection: Play
It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.Collection: Facts
The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.Collection: Flower
Time is an illusion-to orators.Collection: Illusion
Play needs direction as well as work.Collection: Play
Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.Collection: Law
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she daresCollection: Women
Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Struggle
Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.Collection: Pride
In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, "It is this, for if it isn't, then what is it?" And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption.Collection: Attitude
A person born with an instinct for poverty.Collection: Poetry
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.Collection: Men
I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.Collection: Believe
It is only life and love that give love and life.Collection: Life And Love
Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.Collection: Love
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.Collection: Men
It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.Collection: Knowledge
There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.Collection: Joy