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Many Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as…
- For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in…
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,…
- Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
- Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new…
- Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we…
- Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
- There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have…
- It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while…
- The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not…
- Power corrupts the few, whileweakness corrupts the many.... The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the…
More Many Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- You looked into my eyes and whispered that you wanted to be with me, all my heart wanted to do was say… — Superman
- One of the great thing that A Christian can do is to draw closer to GOD inspite of all the hindrances. I… — Pacifiersucker
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. — Swami Vivekananda
- There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen