Elbert Hubbard Quotes

1856–1915, American writer and publisher
quotes
99
topics
12
Origin
What do these mean?
Topic
“Habit is a form of exercise”
Habit
“Luck is tenacity of purpose.”
Luck
“Allow motion to equal emotion.”
Action
“Grammar is the grave of letters.”
Grammar
“Laughter is higher than all pain.”
Laughter
“We work to become, not to acquire.”
Work
“Victory; a matter of staying power.”
Victory
“Live truth instead of professing it.”
Truth
“Play needs direction as well as work.”
Plays
“Every life is its own excuse for being.”
Existence
“Your neighbor is the man who needs you.”
Neighbors
“Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.”
Gossip
“Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.”
Love
“A person born with an instinct for poverty.”
Poetry and Poets
“Blessed is that man who has found his work.”
Work
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
Love
“The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.”
Civilization
“Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.”
Dignity
“Life in abundance comes only through great love.”
Love
“The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.”
Juries
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”
Action
“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.”
Faith
“Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.”
Secrets
“One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.”
Experts
“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
Critics and Criticism
“One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.”
Joy
“What people need and what they want may be very different.”
Conflict
“Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.”
Money