Elbert Green Hubbard Quotes

Making men live in three worlds at once — past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

A Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

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.