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
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.