Author

Elbert Hubbard

92 quotations

About Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Green Hubbard 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. 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.

Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Life Great Success Failure Love Work
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Advertisement

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.