{"id":7030,"date":"2016-05-13T14:18:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:18:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:18:28","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Elbert_Hubbard_99_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=7030","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Elbert Hubbard (99 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher<\/b><\/div>\n
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Committees and Meetings<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Failure<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Poetry and Poets<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Pessimism<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Glutton<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Memory<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Allow motion to equal emotion.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Action<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Miracles<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Executives<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Methods<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Blessed is that man who has found his work.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Work<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Character<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Charity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Music<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Habit<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Dignity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Life and Living<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed — there's so little competition.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Competition<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Every life is its own excuse for being.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Existence<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.<\/div>\n
Elbert Hubbard – [Spirit and Spirituality<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Quotations 1 to 20 of 99<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNext ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLast<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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