Eric Hoffer Quotes

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

Failure makes me work even harder.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

You’ll fail at some things, that’s a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience... What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

I'm afraid the negative things are always the great subjects. Failure is much more interesting than success.

The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

Success is often harder to take than failure.

As you step every day and we're going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well.

Failure instructs, failure improves. Failure shouldn't deter you.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.