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
To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain
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.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Men are only as great as they are kind.
To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well
Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one.