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
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.