Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer

"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."
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"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."
Eric Hoffer
"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house."
Eric Hoffer
"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams."
Eric Hoffer
"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past."
Eric Hoffer
"Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us."
Eric Hoffer
"To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self."
Eric Hoffer
"Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt."
Eric Hoffer
"Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny."
Eric Hoffer
"Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many."
Eric Hoffer
"The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility."
Eric Hoffer
"However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us."
Eric Hoffer
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
Eric Hoffer
"People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility."
Eric Hoffer
"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
Eric Hoffer
"Fear is uncertainty."
Eric Hoffer
"When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest."
Eric Hoffer
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents."
Eric Hoffer
"The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind."
Eric Hoffer
"To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life."
Eric Hoffer
"There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative."
Eric Hoffer
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