Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

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

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.

Life is unrest, and its passage at best a zigzag course, that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the years.

Heaven: the Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are. By

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

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

Live truth instead of professing it.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.