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
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.
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.
Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!