Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
ERIC HOFFERAdd a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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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, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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