Elbert Hubbard
Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.Collection: Writing
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.Collection: Government
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.Collection: Men
What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.Collection: Littles
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.Collection: Beautiful
A goal without a plan is a dream.Collection: Dream
Everything comes too late for those who only wait.Collection: Waiting
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.Collection: Life
True life lies in laughter, love and work.Collection: Love
The cheerful loser is the winner.Collection: Loss
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they doCollection: Work
I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.Collection: Strong
As we grow better, we meet better people.Collection: People
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.Collection: Fear
Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.Collection: Wise
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.Collection: Wisdom
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.Collection: Inspirational
Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.Collection: Sunshine
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.Collection: Faith
The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.Collection: Husband
Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.Collection: Men
Postponement: The father of failure.Collection: Father
Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.Collection: Emotion
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.Collection: Wise
No matter how long you live, die young.Collection: Long
What people need and what they want may be very different.Collection: People
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.Collection: Believe
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.Collection: Relationship
The reward of a good deed is in having done it.Collection: Rewards
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.Collection: Fear
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.Collection: Men
I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.Collection: Work
A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.Collection: Men
To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.Collection: Slavery
Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows howCollection: Inspirational
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.Collection: Sympathy
Grammar is the grave of letters.Collection: Letters
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.Collection: Hero
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.Collection: Science
The goal of evolution is self - conquestCollection: Self
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.Collection: Fate
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.Collection: Kindness
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.Collection: Men
Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.Collection: Life
Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.Collection: Freedom
Action is thought tempered by illusion.Collection: Ideas
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.Collection: Memories
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.Collection: Forgiveness
Every life is its own excuse for being.Collection: Life