#himself

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance. ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#capable #determination #dignity #firm #give

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#continuously #himself #man #say #thinkers

Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.' ↗

— Chris Matthews

#democrats #give #happen #hard #himself

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me. ↗

— Ed Harris

#art #began #being #him #himself

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. ↗

— A. P. Herbert

#enjoys #except #himself #never #noble

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#because #being #considered #cowardly #duty

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him. ↗

— Ben Hecht

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Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#drunk #eaten #ever #himself #many

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#hath #himself #his #liberty #life

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of. ↗

— Fred Hoyle

#always #beware #everything #flashy #himself