"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
― Eric Hoffer
Topic(s):
Hope
― Eric Hoffer
More From Eric Hoffer
- "Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves."
- "I don’t even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don’t think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool."
- "Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."
More In Hope
- "And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain."― Terrence Howard
- "Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world."― Barbara Boxer
- "My fondest hope is that ‘Roots’ may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall."― Alex Haley