Top Elbert Hubbard Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Elbert Hubbard Biography

Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was 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 fourteen-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.

Read about Elbert Hubbard in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Elbert Hubbard Quotes

I believe the Universe is planned for good.

Believe, I Believe, Planned, Universe

What people need and what they want may be very different. . . . Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

Teacher, Educational, Teaching, Different, Educate, Appreciate

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Desire, Intelligence, Religion, Same, Token, Unseen

History: gossip well told.

Gossip, History, Told, Wells

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Divine, Solitude, Strength, Waiting

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

Records, Deeds, Lasts, Acts, Record

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Freedom, Life, Lived, Tyrant, Tyrants

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

Average, Believe, Believes, Man, Men

No matter how long you live, die young.

Die, Live, Long, Matter, Young

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Motivational, Positive, Leadership, Test, Discover, Thing

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

Genius, Power, Precedent, Right, Time

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

Atheism, Martyr, Martyrs, Men, Persecutors, Type

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Best Friend, Friend, Friendship, Knows, Loves, True Friend

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

Beauty, Create, Possess

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

Imitation, Imitator, Men, Succeed, Succeeds

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Agreement, Debate, Dispute, Happen, Long, Lost Friendship

If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

Make You Think, Spiritual, Stature, Supply, Think, Thinking

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

Acts, Men, Reason, Reasons, Right, Usually

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Giving, God, Highest, Reward, Rewards, Work

We work to become, not to acquire.

Acquire, Become, Life, Motivational, Work

1

...