Elbert Green Hubbard Quotes

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

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.

I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself. Prizefighters die young, gourmands get the gout, hate hurts worse the man who nurses it, and all selfishness robs the mind of its divine insight, and cheats the soul that would know. Mind alone is eternal. He, watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps. My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.

It is only life and love that give love and life.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

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

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

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

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.

If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.

Life is just one damn thing after another.