Top 114 Quotes by 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.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.