“How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.”
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
- Eric Hoffer
Awareness
"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
- Eric Hoffer
Compassion
"Creativity is discontent translated into arts."
- Eric Hoffer
Creativity
"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."
- Eric Hoffer
Creativity
"The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."
- Eric Hoffer
Leadership
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity