Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Elbert Hubbard Quote: He who does not understand your silence will probably...
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Elbert Hubbard (The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard, 1927)

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard (Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, 1906)

Art is not a thing separate and apart; art is only the beautiful way of doing things.

Elbert Hubbard (Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, 1900)

A great success is made up of an aggregation of little ones.

Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings: The American Bible, 1998)

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard (Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, 1903)

Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

Elbert Hubbard (The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard, 1927)

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings: The American Bible, 1998)

No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

Elbert Hubbard (Little Journeys to Homes of the Great, 1916)

Truth is the opinion that still survives.

Elbert Hubbard (Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, 1906)

The Church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Elbert Hubbard (Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, 1908)

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Elbert Hubbard (Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, 1911)

It is only life and love that give love and life.

Elbert Hubbard (The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard, 1927)

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard (Quoted in Elbert Hubbard: The Common Sense Revolutionary, 2003)

Success consists in the climb.

Elbert Hubbard (Quoted in Preachments: Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, 1998)

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Elbert Hubbard (The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard, 1927)

I do not care what man has been. I care what he has become.

Elbert Hubbard (Thousand & One Epigrams, 1911)

There is no defeat except from within.

Elbert Hubbard (The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard, 1927)

The reward of a good deed is to have done it.

Elbert Hubbard (The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard, 1927)

I believe in the Blessed Trinity of Father, Mother and Child.

Elbert Hubbard (Credo, 1901)

There is no such thing as success in a bad business.

Elbert Hubbard (The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard, 1927)

Live truth instead of professing it. 

Elbert Hubbard

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Elbert Hubbard (The Philistine, 1907)



Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings: The American Bible, 1998)

Art is the expression of man’s joy in his work.

Elbert Hubbard (The Roycroft Shop: A History, 1908)

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used. 

Elbert Hubbard

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

Elbert Hubbard (The Roycraft Dictionary and Book Epigrams, 1923)

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

Elbert Hubbard (The Roycraft Dictionary and Book Epigrams, 1923)

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings: The American Bible, 1998)

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Elbert Hubbard Biography

Born: June 19, 1856
Died: May 7, 1915

Elbert Hubbard was an American writer and philosopher. He is best known as being the founder of the Roycroft artisan community.

Notable Works

The Philistine (Publisher of the Magazine)
The Fra (Publisher of the Magazine)