This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker.

— Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard Quotes

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

— Elbert Hubbard
Business Action Motivational for Work Excellence About Work

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

— Elbert Hubbard
Friday for Work Excellence Dedication Monday Morning Career Development

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

— Elbert Hubbard

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

— Elbert Hubbard

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

— Elbert Hubbard

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

— Elbert Hubbard

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

— Elbert Hubbard

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

— Elbert Hubbard

Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are. By.

— Elbert Hubbard

The hands that help are far better than the lips that pray.

— Elbert Hubbard

The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

— Elbert Hubbard

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

— Elbert Hubbard

Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire.

— Elbert Hubbard

This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker.

— Elbert Hubbard

All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many.

— Elbert Hubbard

If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing – court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.

— Elbert Hubbard

Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.

— Elbert Hubbard

You gain by giving – so give sympathy and cheerful loyalty to the institution. Be proud of it.

— Elbert Hubbard

The typical accountant is a man, past middle age, spare, wrinkled, intelligent, cold, passive, non-committal, with eyes like a cod-fish; polite in contact but at the same time unresponsive, calm and damnably composed as a concrete post or a plaster of Paris cast; a petrification with a heart of feldspar and without charm of the friendly germ, minus bowels, passion or a sense of humor. Happily they never reproduce and all of them finally go to Hell.

— Elbert Hubbard

The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I’ll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.

— Elbert Hubbard
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