623 Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.

If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

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

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Woman’s inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man’s ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn’t know it’s dead.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token.