Eric Hoffer Quotes

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

I'm a work in progress.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I think I'm always a little bit under construction. I'm a project that I'm trying to improve upon.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.