Eric Hoffer Quotes
+24Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- Eric Hoffer
+3We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.
- Eric Hoffer
+1Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
- Eric Hoffer
+1With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
- Eric Hoffer
+1Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self respect.
- Eric Hoffer
+1People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
- Eric Hoffer
+1Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
- Eric Hoffer
+1Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
- Eric Hoffer
+1You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
- Eric Hoffer
+1The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
- Eric Hoffer
+1A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
- Eric Hoffer
+1In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
+1It is the around the corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- Eric Hoffer
+1We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
- Eric Hoffer
+1Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
- Eric Hoffer
+1Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
- Eric Hoffer
+1When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
- Eric Hoffer
+1The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
-Eric Hoffer
+1It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
- Eric Hoffer
+1It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
- Eric Hoffer
0Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
- Eric Hoffer
0Successful action tends to become an end in itself.
- Eric Hoffer
