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
I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
What people need and what they want may be very different.
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.
As we grow better, we meet better people.
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.
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
Library: A place where the dead lie.
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.