Eric Hoffer Quotes

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• The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation,…
• It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
• Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
• No one has a right to happiness
• I want to be remebered for the smile I gave them when they couldnt find there own. For the happieness that they needed a little…
• Successful action tends to become an end in itself
• You cannot gage the intelligence of an American by talking with him.
• However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the…
• It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
• To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves…
• Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.Eric Hoffer
• Those who are involved in the development of people are doing the most important work in the world for they are completing Gods work.
• A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come
• Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we…
• In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world…
• It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives.…
• But I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind
• Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
• The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscapes
• Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new…

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