Eric Hoffer Quotes

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

I will get stronger. I will return.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

No man who has brought himself back from what might have been an entire life of invalidism to strength, and activity, physical and mental and spiritual can ever be accused of preaching or exemplifying a mollycoddle philosophy.

All we can do in life is push through the things that make us afraid and try to be better.

If you're a true warrior, competition doesn't scare you. It makes you better.

I am proud of my scars because they show I dedicated myself to a bigger purpose.