Burden Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burden Freedom Freedom to choose Liberty Men Talent True believer
Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations… — Edwin Conklin Copy Share Image
Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want. — Seth Copy Share Image
No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability. — Simon Helberg 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
Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me. — Seungri Copy Share Image
Trump's enduring appeal is a resource to be harnessed by the Republican Party, not a burden to be jettisoned. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge. — David Blaine Copy Share Image
Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
