Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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

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  Topics in Advice

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Competence, Adversity

• Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

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  Topics in Life, Spirituality

  Tags in Humour

• 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

• The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Giving

• There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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  Topics in Failure, Inspirational, Success

  Tags in Persistence

• Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

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  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Diversity, Good, Reason

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

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Limitations, Stupidity

• Live truth instead of expressing it.

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  Topics in Commitment, Life, Truth

  Tags in Communication

• The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and every man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Limitations, Understanding, Criticism

• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in God, Joy

  Tags in Envy, Ecstasy, Arouse, Ineffable, Being, Forgiven, Forgiving, Forms, Well, Might

• It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man.

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  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Weakness, Strength

• 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?

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Achievement

• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elimination, Chipping, Produces, Needed, Marble, Block, Sculptor, Process, Statue, Away, Parts, Beautiful, Such

• Art is not a thing; it is a way.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Way, Thing

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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