#himself

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge. ↗

— John Cusack

#anything #art #challenge #good #himself

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#cleverest #fool #himself #in my opinion #least

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#aids #dear #dear friend #early #friend

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health? ↗

— Petrarch

#any #blessing #dangerous #desire #found

Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself. ↗

— William Petty

#back #certain #certain time #certainly #come

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#even #exhausting #fastest #guts #himself

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. ↗

— Plato

#best #character #depends #everything #happily

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. ↗

— Don Shula

#himself #inferior #man #others #superior

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#character #hero #himself #know #own

Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#character #drawings #early #enjoying #felt