Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbardwas an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Presently Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 June 1859
CountryUnited States of America
The cure for grief is motion.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Victory; a matter of staying power.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.