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 HofferHe who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.
Eric HofferRetribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
Eric HofferWe do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Eric HofferThe birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.
Eric Hoffer