Quotes by Hoffer, Eric

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory >>

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters p >>

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. >>

Quotations about Ambition

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? >>

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there a >>

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot >>

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

Hoffer, Eric