623 Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

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

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.