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
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.
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
Every life is its own excuse for being.
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
Action is thought tempered by illusion.
Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
History: gossip well told.