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
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.