Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us” — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter — Eric Hoffer Copy Share
