True Believer By Eric Hoffer Quotes

#1. A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Henry A. Kissinger

#2. The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

Eric Hoffer

#3. I do not think we have a right to withhold from the world a word or a thought any more than a deed which might help a single soul ...

Emily Dickinson

#4. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole
the church, party, nation
and not to his fellow true believer.

Eric Hoffer

#5. To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Eric Hoffer

#6. Dear Lord, you know our need and how much we depend upon your help. We're not going to give you orders about what to do, God. We are just going to thank you for being there when we need you. In the name of Jesus, your Son. Amen.

Janette Oke

#7. If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

Eric Hoffer

#8. Knowledge is worthless when your enemy knows you have it.

Linda Massucci

#9. To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .

Eric Hoffer

#11. The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

H.L. Mencken

#12. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.

Eric Hoffer

#13. To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

Eric Hoffer

#14. I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

Brandon Lee

#15. It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Eric Hoffer

#16. 1I said, I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin; I will put a muzzle on my mouth while in the presence of the wicked.

Anonymous

#17. The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.

Eric Hoffer

#18. We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.

Patricia Schroeder

#19. The Grey Seers visited every Skaven stronghold up and down the Under-way. They give a single ultimatum - be at the annual feast of Vermintide or suffer the wrath of the Great Horned Rat.

Jeremy Vetock

#20. Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.

John C. Maxwell

#21. Keep your heart with all diligence and God will take care of the universe.

Aiden Wilson Tozer