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
I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of your head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.
Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.