Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

About Elbert Hubbard:

Elbert Green Hubbard is known best as the initiator of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, a realization of the Arts and Crafts philosophy. 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 his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania, when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Elbert Hubbard

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Elbert Hubbard

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Elbert Hubbard

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Elbert Hubbard

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Elbert Hubbard

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Elbert Hubbard

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Elbert Hubbard

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Elbert Hubbard

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

Elbert Hubbard

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Elbert Hubbard

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Elbert Hubbard

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Elbert Hubbard

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Elbert Hubbard

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Elbert Hubbard

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Elbert Hubbard

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Elbert Hubbard

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

Author Bio

  • NameElbert Hubbard
  • DescriptionAmerican writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher
  • AliasesElbert Hubbard
  • BornJune 19, 1856
  • DiedMay 7, 1915
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Journalist; Philosopher; Publisher