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
The only way to retain love is to give it away.
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.
A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.
Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.
No matter how long you live, die young.
Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.