Quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.
- Elbert Hubbard
True life lies in laughter, love and work.
- Elbert Hubbard
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
- Elbert Hubbard
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
- Elbert Hubbard
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
- Elbert Hubbard
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
- Elbert Hubbard
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
- Elbert Hubbard
Every life is its own excuse for being.
- Elbert Hubbard
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
- Elbert Hubbard
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.
- Elbert Hubbard
Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.
- Elbert Hubbard
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
- Elbert Hubbard