“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Ernest Hemingway (verified)
A Man’s Credo (Primary source)
This short essay on life philosophy, written by Ernest Hemingway, appeared in Playboy, January 1963.
“To regret one’s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience and discipline regulated by judgment.”
Ernest Hemingway (verified)
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— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
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