Elbert Hubbard Quotes

• The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

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  Tags in Competence, Adversity

• Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

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

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  Tags in Limitations, Stupidity

• A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.

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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 to your goal.

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

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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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• Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

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• We work to become, not to acquire.

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• If you want a work well done, select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

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• Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.

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• The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

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• No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

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• Life is just one damned thing after another.

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  Topics in Life

• In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

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  Tags in Limitations

• To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

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  Topics in Wisdom

• No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

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Elbert Hubbard (117)

Birth:	19th June, 1856
Death:	7th May, 1915
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Philosopher, Publisher, Writer

About

Elbert Green Hubbard was born in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. He was an American writer, publisher, and philosopher. Presently 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 wrote a critique of war, law and government in the booklet Jesus Was An Anarchist. He edited and published two magazines, The Philistine and The Fra.

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