Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) was a popular American salesman, author, and philosopher from the turn of the twentieth century.

This self-described “businessman with a literary attachment” had an unusual career. Hubbard was a brilliant marketer and salesperson for a soap company. At age 37, he sold his shares in the company to establish an arts and crafts community called Roycroft in East Aurora, New York. Roycroft attracted publishers, bookbinders, and artisans who, although not paid well, had a great deal of freedom to experiment with and refine their trade-skills.

Hubbard wrote six novels and hundreds of inspirational biographical essays called Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. His A Message to Garcia (1899) was a bestselling inspirational essay on sales and marketing. His satirical newspaper The Philistine had a monthly circulation of over 100,000.

In 1915, Hubbard died on a voyage from New York to Liverpool aboard the RMS Lusitania when a German submarine torpedoed it off the coast of Ireland.

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
—Elbert Hubbard

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Justice

Don’t make excuses, make good.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Excuses

You will generally find that the person who doesn’t give a continental what the newspapers say about ‘im either one way or the other subscribes to a press clipping bureau anyway.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Journalism

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Strength

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Action, Critics, Perfection, Criticism, Realism

Morality is largely a matter of geography.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Morals

You can lead a boy to college but you can’t make him think.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Thought, Education

Similarly—although to a somewhat lesser degree—conceit, self-indulgence, and greed lead to physical illness, or lack of well-being.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Worry

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Spirituality, Spirit

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Criticism

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Difficulties, Adversity, Suffering

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Virtues, Entrepreneurs, Thinking, Attitude, Optimism

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Optimism, Mind, Positive Attitudes, Attitude, War, Health

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Forgiveness, Government

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Science

Live truth instead of professing it.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Hypocrisy, Truth

A person born with an instinct for poverty.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Poetry, Poets

Allow motion to equal emotion.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Action

Logic is one thing and Common Sense another.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Logic

Righteous indignation: Your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Anger

The point I wish to make is this: President William McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, Where is he at? By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze & the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thingCarry a message to Garcia!
—Elbert Hubbard

Every knock is a boost.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Life

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Faith

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Appreciation, Attitude

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Leadership

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Civilization

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Service

OPTIMISM: A kind of heart stimulant—the digitalis of failure.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Optimism

I believe in freedom—social, economical, domestic, political, mental and spiritual.
—Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Freedom

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