Eric Hoffer Quotes About Failure

Quotes about: Failure

• There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loneliness, Failure, Being Alone

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• 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

• For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, People, Achievement

• It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Responsibility, Weak

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

• One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Years, Effort

• Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Successful, Guarantees

• It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Expression, Land

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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