1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard – [Committees and Meetings]
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard – [Failure]
A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Elbert Hubbard – [Poetry and Poets]
A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard – [Pessimism]
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
Elbert Hubbard – [Glutton]
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard – [Memory]
Allow motion to equal emotion.
Elbert Hubbard – [Action]
An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
Elbert Hubbard – [Miracles]
An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
Elbert Hubbard – [Executives]
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 – [Methods]
Blessed is that man who has found his work.
Elbert Hubbard – [Work]
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard – [Character]
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Elbert Hubbard – [Charity]
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Elbert Hubbard – [Music]
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Elbert Hubbard – [Habit]
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
Elbert Hubbard – [Dignity]
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard – [Life and Living]
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed — there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard – [Competition]
Every life is its own excuse for being.
Elbert Hubbard – [Existence]
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
Elbert Hubbard – [Spirit and Spirituality]