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 friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Victory; a matter of staying power.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
True life lies in laughter, love and work.
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.