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Self Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.
- A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for…
- People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a…
- 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…
- Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.
- Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self…
- The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will…
- How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
- To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our…
- Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine,…
- The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is…
- A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of…
- Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
- Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something…
- You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for…
- It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral…
- Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we…
- The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing…
- Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
- A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
More Self Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker
- Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the… — Samuel Johnson
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy