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
Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Nothing is permanent but change.
Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.
Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.
History: a collection of epitaphs.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.