Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Elbert Hubbard
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Anger
Interest
Impudent
Times
Compounded
Give
Sends
Back
Letter
Right
Throw
Giving
Ten
Men
Letters
More quotes by Elbert Hubbard
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
Elbert Hubbard
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
Elbert Hubbard
God is good, there is no devil but fear.
Elbert Hubbard
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
Elbert Hubbard
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Elbert Hubbard
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
Elbert Hubbard
Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
Elbert Hubbard
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
Elbert Hubbard
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
Elbert Hubbard
As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
Elbert Hubbard
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
Elbert Hubbard
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.
Elbert Hubbard
If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
Elbert Hubbard
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
Elbert Hubbard
Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
Elbert Hubbard
Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
Elbert Hubbard
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
Elbert Hubbard
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard
