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
Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
We work to become, not to acquire.
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.