To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Nature of the Desire for Change: There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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 Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — 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. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
