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
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.