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
Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.
The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.
There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.
The goal of evolution is self - conquest
If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Allow motion to equal emotion.
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.
Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.