Elbert Hubbard
American writer, publisher and founder of the Roycroft community, 1856-1915
65 quotes.
Quotes by Elbert Hubbard
- The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
- The Boss is he who demands of himself more than he demands of all the rest of his people.
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually afraid you will make one.
- The highest reward that God gives us for good work, is the ability to do better work.
- The man who can laugh at himself, and who is not anxious to have the last word, is right in the suburbs of greatness.
- The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
- The only way to get a big place is to show that you are not ashamed to fill a little one.
- The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- The reward for all good work is not rest, but more work, and harder work.
- 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.
- The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be.
- The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.
- There is no failure except in no longer trying.
- There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
- Think right, act right; it is what we think and do that makes us what we are.
- To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- To be gentle, generous, lenient, forgiving, and yet never relinquish the vital thing--this is to be great.
- To do a certain amount of useful work every day, and not trouble about either the past or the future, is the highest wisdom.
- To know you are useful, and realize that you are needed, is a great stimulus to growth.
- To prove yourself able to rastle a big job, get busy and take care of a little one.
- To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise — and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
- We are ruled by our habits. When habits are young they are like lion-cubs, soft, fluffy, funny, frolicsome little animals. They grow day by day. Eventually they rule you.
- Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
- Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.