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
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.
No man ever did or can do a great work alone.
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.
Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain
To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
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.