Self Made Man Quotes

“we have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; They know they didn't — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own.

There are a lot of wealthy, successful americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. Jay gatsby is a man surrounded by a thick fog of rumours, secrets, and gossip, now an oxford man, then a killer, now a soldier, and then a bootlegger. Gatsby lived the ideal american individualistic life which caused him to loose touch with his human nature.

Pieper says that man’s nature is to be in harmony with oneself and the whole world.

She'd never willingly given into anything he'd wanted of her. Right now, i'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but i'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so i look like a cop. Gatsby lived the ideal american individualistic life which caused him to loose touch with his human nature. — evan dorren it seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.