Quote

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

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
Thinking
Cooperation
Deeds
Thinks
Place
Certain
Doe
Things
Men

More quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Image
Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Nothing is permanent but change.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
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
Image
Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
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
Image
Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
Elbert Hubbard
Image
Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
Elbert Hubbard