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
Men are only as great as they are kind.
The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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.
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!
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.