Eric Hoffer Quotes

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you'd like to witness history.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

I still have a 15¢ sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement.

If I'm ever lucky enough to be part of an awards tribute, I hope they play 'Muffin Top' in my little clip. That's how I want to be remembered.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.

When glory comes, loss of memory follows.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;

You'll remember every damn loss. But the wins? You don't necessarily remember.

For me, all days are memorable days.

I've been to the top. I've also been at the bottom.

People are remembered for defining moments in their career.

No matter where you play, you want to be remembered.

I remember virtually everything about every loss. And the wins are hardly memorable.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.

No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten