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Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher who founded the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York. His essay *A Message to Garcia* became one of the most widely distributed publications in history. Hubbard's aphorisms on work, success, and character remain widely quoted.

“Men are only as great as they are kind.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Great

All Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

“Fear clogs faith liberates.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Faith

“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.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Friendship

“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Attitude

“Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Life

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Great

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Men

“The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Science

“Life in abundance comes only through great love.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Great

“Live truth instead of professing it.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Truth

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Knowledge

“Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Morning

“Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Death

“This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Money

“We work to become, not to acquire.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Work

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Home

“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Love

“He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Success

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Experience

“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Business

“If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.”

— Elbert Hubbard

God