Words Of Elbert Hubbard
Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts. 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. As the tide goes clear out, so it comes clear in. In business sometimes prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
By Elbert Hubbard: as quoted in Alice Hubbard, editor: “The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard” (1927), page 13
Elbert Green Hubbard was born on 19 June 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America. He became a teacher, an epigrammatist, a writer, an editor, a publisher, an artist, and a philosopher. He is known as the founder of the Roycroft Press, website http://www.roycrofter.com. Elbert Green Hubbard passed on at 58 years of age on 7 May 1915 in the sinking of the oceangoing vessel “Lusitania” off the coast of Kinsale, Ireland.
Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts. 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. As the tide goes clear out, so it comes clear in. In business sometimes prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
By Elbert Hubbard: as quoted in Alice Hubbard, editor: “The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard” (1927), page 13
Elbert Green Hubbard was born on 19 June 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois, United States of America. He became a teacher, an epigrammatist, a writer, an editor, a publisher, an artist, and a philosopher. He is known as the founder of the Roycroft Press, website http://www.roycrofter.com. Elbert Green Hubbard passed on at 58 years of age on 7 May 1915 in the sinking of the oceangoing vessel “Lusitania” off the coast of Kinsale, Ireland.