Elbert Hubbard Quotes

The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.

Elbert Hubbard

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• Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Father
  • Fire
  • Lighting

• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Single

• My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Look
  • Window

• When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Same
  • Walk

• That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • See
  • Go

• Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Woman

• Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Spiritual
  • Three
  • Tattoos

• It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Good
  • Talent

• Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.

  

  Candice Millard
  • America
  • Change
  • Perfect

• Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Probably

• I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Never
  • Got
  • Jeans

• Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Just
  • Run
  • West

• I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Poverty

• When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• 'It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Advice
  • Sad

• Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
  • People
  • Men
  • Beautiful

• All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind a wire around it, then plug the wire in. The core gets hot, the wires smoke, and the fuse blows. So you see, there are practical limitations to theory.

  

  James Van Allen
  • Good
  • Practice
  • Wind

• In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Up
  • She
  • Death

• The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Public Opinion
  • Strives

• The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.

  

  Elbert Hubbard