“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

— Ernest Hemingway · Courage quote

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway quote card
Novelist, Nobel laureate · 1899 – 1961

American novelist known for The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms; Nobel Prize in Literature 1954.

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