Eric Hoffer Quotes

You should always want more. If you get comfortable with what you have done, you can never go to that next level.

Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

We just want to outdo ourselves every time we come back somewhere.

I'm always reaching to find something that will challenge me and make me do my best.

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.

I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.

I just want to do something challenging.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I don't ever want to feel complacent.

I think you should always aim for more.

I always want to grow and top myself.

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.