Quotes from Elbert Hubbard

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.

Remember this: If you work for a man, in Heaven's name, work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position, and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

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

An editor - a person employed on a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his 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.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

The cure for grief is motion.

Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.