#himself

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#business #credit #get #great #great business

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. ↗

— Willa Cather

#born #every #harder #himself #longer

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#force #go #him #himself #his

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#give #himself #man #nothing

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#carry #earth #had #hadn #here

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life? ↗

— Rod Steiger

#back #because #come #comes #dishonor

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#himself #love #rivals #who #will

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. ↗

— Rene Dubos

#environment #himself #his #man #shape

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#afloat #beyond #himself #his #horizon

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#father #had #himself #his #life