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
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.
Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.