When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.


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ERIC GILL
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ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR.
When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER
There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi...
ERIC HOFFER
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...
ERIC HOFFER
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
ERIC HOFFER
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
ERIC PARSLOW
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER
Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER
Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate conscious...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
ERIC HOFFER
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
ERIC HOFFER
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
ERIC HOFFER