Eric Hoffer Quotes

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

So all things limp together for the only possible.

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.