Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is to love, laugh, and work.

Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain.

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.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

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

Las inteligencias poco capaces se interesan en lo extraordinario; las inteligencias poderosas en las cosas ordinarias.

This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker

All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many

If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.

one grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is in her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one. And if he can 'defeat with great slaughter' his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.

Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.

The typical accountant is a man, past middle age, spare, wrinkled, intelligent, cold, passive, non-committal, with eyes like a cod-fish; polite in contact but at the same time unresponsive, calm and damnably composed as a concrete post or a plaster of Paris cast; a petrification with a heart of feldspar and without charm of the friendly germ, minus bowels, passion or a sense of humor. Happily they never reproduce and all of them finally go to Hell.

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

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...

The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there's so little competition.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El amor que regalamos es el único amor que mantenemos" (Elbert Hubbard)

When life hands you lemons make lemonade ! After my cancer diagnosis this became my Moto and it got me though the worst of it! I came out ahead cancer free for five years so far !!!!!

Hubo un hombre cuya actuación en la guerra de Cuba culmina en los horizontes de mi memoria, como culmina un astro en su perihelio.