Eric Hoffer Quotes

I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

People are decisions and actions.

The only person who takes the full responsibility why I leave Man United is myself. I am the one to make the choice.

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

In dreams begins responsibility.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

When people stop believing they are free agents, they stop seeing themselves as blameworthy for their actions.