17 quotes by Elbert Hubbard

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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Communication

5.0 · 23 votes · 169 reads

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Humankind

4.1 · 43 votes

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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Character

4.5 · 62 votes · 100 reads

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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

Charity

4.7 · 56 votes

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

Competition

4.8 · 48 votes · 141 reads

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Elbert Hubbard

Various
God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
4.8 · 36 votes · 138 reads
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Virtues
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
3.6 · 55 votes · 19 reads
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Thought and Reason
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
3.1 · 62 votes · 176 reads
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Virtues
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
3.0 · 57 votes · 173 reads
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Feelings
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
3.4 · 57 votes · 82 reads
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Virtues
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
4.2 · 28 votes · 128 reads
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Society
Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
4.7 · 43 votes · 0 reads
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Society
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
4.6 · 14 votes · 117 reads
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Art and Culture
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
4.5 · 25 votes · 40 reads
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Art and Culture
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
4.9 · 56 votes · 194 reads
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Virtues
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
5.0 · 38 votes · 56 reads
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Various
What people need and what they want may be very different.
4.3 · 63 votes · 134 reads
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