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
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.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Men are only as great as they are kind.
To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one.
One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and finds it bad - including himself and Nature
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.
Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.