Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Elbert Hubbard

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• You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Lost
  • Yourself
  • Golf

• If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Want
  • Change
  • Doing

• Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Earth
  • Travel
  • Find

• When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Care
  • Example

• My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Books

• The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Wise

• I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Way
  • Born
  • Raised

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Dream
  • You
  • Try

• The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Trouble

• It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Earth
  • Control
  • Sky

• The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • City
  • President
  • Big City

• I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Girl

• I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Drawing

• I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • Book
  • Political

• He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Generosity

• This Court now concludes that independent political expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Political
  • Independent

• It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Justice
  • Virtue

• They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

  

  Paul Auster

• There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party.

  

  Michael Laws
  • Party
  • Attacking
  • Likely

• Our own views are not prophecy, but interpretations of the holy prophets of old.

  

  Charles Taze Russell

• Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

  

  Elbert Hubbard