Eric Hoffer Quotes About Work

Quotes about: Work

• The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Time, Work

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

• Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Power, Weakness

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

• The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Energy, Done

• Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Ambition, Men

• The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Tasks, Firsts

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

• To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Obvious, Spells

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

• Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Work, Degrees

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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