Elbert Green Hubbard quotes American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Born: 06/19/1856 Died: 05/07/1915 Country: usa

• Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [ignorance]
• This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [willpower/more/money/books]
• A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [thing]
• The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [path]
• To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Elbert Green Hubbard)
• It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [compromise]
• The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [wisdom/rest/life/love]
• It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [take]
• To stop sinning suddenly. (Elbert Green Hubbard)
• Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [charity/thing/housing]
• Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [character/result/attitude/time]
• If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [enemies]
• Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you. (Elbert Green Hubbard)
• A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [memory/thing/ability/forget]
• Grammar is the grave of letters. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [mail]
• One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [ignorance]
• Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [condition/mind]
• The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [mistake]
• Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [men/give/service]
• An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [right]
• The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [money]
• Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself. (Elbert Green Hubbard)
• The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. (Elbert Green Hubbard)
• Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [genius/ability/power/right]
• A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [experience]
• Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [master]
• Habit is a form of exercise (Elbert Green Hubbard) [habit/form/exercise]
• Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [enemies/willpower]
• There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [defeat/weakness]
• A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who lives well. (Elbert Green Hubbard)
• Life in abundance comes only through great love. (Elbert Green Hubbard) [life/love]

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