Eric Hoffer Quotes:
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer
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 lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Eric Hoffer
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
Eric Hoffer
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Eric Hoffer
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It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
Eric Hoffer
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer
Children are the keys of paradise.
Eric Hoffer
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
Eric Hoffer
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer
The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.
Eric Hoffer
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Eric Hoffer
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Eric Hoffer
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Eric Hoffer
With 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
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Eric Hoffer
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
Eric Hoffer
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
Eric Hoffer
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