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Needs Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need…
- We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in…
- It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and…
- A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and…
- To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think…
- We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something…
- There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on…
- Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your…
- It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.
- It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
- Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary…
- The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his…
- When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.…
- We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
- It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
- To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
- You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
- Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
- The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few…
- No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner…
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