Quote

If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

Elbert Hubbard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
Publisher
Writer
Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
Others
Cannot
Power
Prey
Invent
Conscience
Powerful
Happy

More quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Image
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.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The man who has no problems is out of the game.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Time is an illusion-to orators.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
History: a collection of epitaphs.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
Elbert Hubbard