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
If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.
There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.
Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.
God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.
When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.
There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.