1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Elbert Hubbard – [Teachers and Teaching]

The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard – [Progress]

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard – [Failure]

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Elbert Hubbard – [Pride]

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard – [Books and Reading]

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Elbert Hubbard – [Planning]

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
Elbert Hubbard – [Sin]

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard – [Critics and Criticism]

To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard – [Death and Dying]

Victory; a matter of staying power.
Elbert Hubbard – [Victory]

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard – [Attitude]

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
Elbert Hubbard – [Expectation]

We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard – [Work]

What people need and what they want may be very different.
Elbert Hubbard – [Conflict]

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.
Elbert Hubbard – [Money]

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard – [Parents and Parenting]

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.
Elbert Hubbard – [Education]

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard – [Friends and Friendship]

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
Elbert Hubbard – [Neighbors]

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