Eric Hoffer Quotes

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

I will flight for the people until my last breath.

I pledge to give all there is of myself.

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.

Give people a convincing reason and they will lay down their very lives.

I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

I just want to serve Colombia.

Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.