Eric Hoffer Quotes About Self Respect

Quotes about: Self Respect

• The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

  Eric Hoffer

  Respect, Self, Trying

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

• We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Respect

  "Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer".

• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Respect, Humility, Pride

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

• In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pride, Men, Self

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

• Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less voluntary surrender. In both cases, the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is - automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will.

  Eric Hoffer

  Crush, Self, Religion

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

• Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Self Respect, Rudeness

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

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