Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.