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 cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Elbert Hubbard

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Elbert Hubbard

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

Elbert Hubbard

Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are c...

Elbert Hubbard

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Elbert Hubbard

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

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Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

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A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Elbert Hubbard

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

Elbert Hubbard

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Elbert Hubbard

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

Elbert Hubbard

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Elbert Hubbard

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

Elbert Hubbard

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near...

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

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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