Elbert Hubbard Quotes

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Elbert Hubbard

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• Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • World
  • Good
  • Game

• There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Me

• He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Key

• If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Born
  • Pessimist
  • I Was Born

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Love
  • Love Yourself

• I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Experience
  • Feet
  • Lamp

• Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

  

  Kanye West
  • Great
  • Art
  • Pain

• I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Hair
  • Back
  • Grade

• I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Think
  • City
  • New York

• Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Blood

• I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Culture
  • Better

• Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Different
  • Know
  • Struggle

• The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Man
  • Leader

• Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • World

• If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Same
  • Talk

• Good Lord, I went in for a check up the other day and the doctor said 'You need to lay off eggs.' I go 'Is my cholesterol bad?' He said 'No, your farts are killing everybody in this room.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

  

  Elbert Hubbard