A Message to Garcia: Being a Preachment

“Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.””

— Elbert Hubbard

“Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are. By””

— Elbert Hubbard

“A PRAYER   The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or “good,” but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage and good will. I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Poise is the strength of body and strength of mind to control your Sympathy and your Knowledge. Unless you control your emotions they run over and you stand in the mire.””

— Elbert Hubbard

“The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.””

— Elbert Hubbard

“Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.””

— Elbert Hubbard

“These truths I hold to be self-evident: That man was made to be happy; that happiness is only attainable through useful effort; that the very best way to help ourselves is to help others, and often the best way to help others is to mind our own business; that useful effort means the proper exercise of all our faculties; that we grow only through exercise; that education should continue through life, and the joys of mental endeavor should be, especially, the solace of the old; that where men alternate work, play and study in right proportion, the organs of the mind are the last to fail, and death for such has no terrors. That””

— Elbert Hubbard

“Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.””

— Elbert Hubbard

“All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Many””

— Elbert Hubbard