Eric Hoffer Quotes about Failure

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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.

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

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

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”

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

Eric Hoffer

Failure, Successful, Guarantees

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