Elbert Hubbard (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915) Quotes

The cure for grief is motion.

Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

No man who does a good deed should expect gratitude. The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

That is good which serves man is the important item, this earth is the place, and the time is now.

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well.