Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. Elbert Hubbard More Quotes by Elbert Hubbard More Quotes From Elbert Hubbard Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep. Elbert Hubbard blindlove-islove The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods. Elbert Hubbard goodsbusinessmanworld What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much. Elbert Hubbard matterlittles Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. Elbert Hubbard charityhome Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them. Elbert Hubbard eyestruggleviews Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up. Elbert Hubbard foolmoneyfunny The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off. Elbert Hubbard menlongway I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW. Elbert Hubbard cheerkindnessbelieve The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. Elbert Hubbard forgivenessspiritualhappiness The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem. Elbert Hubbard self-esteemaveragemen Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books. Elbert Hubbard academiccollegebook A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life. Elbert Hubbard educationteacherretirement The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness. Elbert Hubbard stupiditydoemen When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods. Elbert Hubbard weak-manwisemen Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination. Elbert Hubbard imaginationchristianislands Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march. Elbert Hubbard doctorstwoscience The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. Elbert Hubbard victorysecretsuccess Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. Elbert Hubbard admirationherolittles No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business. Elbert Hubbard sensiblebeesadvice Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it. Elbert Hubbard recordsdoebeauty
