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
Elbert Hubbard quotes about
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.