Eric Hoffer Quotes

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

I read the Gospel, and saw there that a great means of reaching perfection was the selling of one's goods, the sharing of them with the poor, the giving up of all care for this life, and the refusal to allow the soul to be turned by any sympathy towards things of earth

Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.

I pledge to give all there is of myself.

It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.

How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.

The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.