Eric Hoffer Quotes

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

The will of man is his happiness.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Liberation does not come from outside.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

Minute by minute, you decide who you are and who you're likely to be. You make the choices hour by hour, just in the present. I don't believe there's some roadmap laid out that we're headed towards.