Eric Hoffer Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Change, Different

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

• They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Inspiration, Persistence

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

  Eric Hoffer

  Vivid, Awareness, Glory

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fate, Frustration, Destiny

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

• Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Marriage, Names, Boredom

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Frustrated, Desire

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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