Eric Hoffer Quotes

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible to find a balance and just about get by.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

Don't think, just do.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

If the water is too clear, there is nothing for the fish to eat.

Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.

You can't think; you just gotta do things.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

Where there is a challenge there has to be a response.

A big side of football is reacting to what happens.

Sometimes you have to shield, and sometimes you have to press.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.