Sentence examples for makes of himself from inspiring English sources

"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself".

In the process he mixed in assorted ideas about time and about what constitutes a person: is it what he makes of himself by the end of his life or is it the total of all his experiences and actions?

Conscience as "natural" or "objective" will thus articulates the (moral) demands that the human being makes of himself, the pursuit of which determines his moral character, now properly so called.

It is out of simple willing and the psychological character to which it gradually gives rise that the "matter" is gathered, as it were, with which one has to work, and from which he ultimately "must secure the demands that he makes of himself": "Being is what gets a person started; demands follow after" (PS I: 198).

Exactly what he made of himself.

Everything he was, he made of himself.

@jamesthornton wrote: "What a cock Spike Jonze made of himself.

We move to some silhouettes he made of himself.

It was a triptych his brother George had made of himself, doing a sit-up.

I suppose he is embarrassed for what has become of him, what he made of himself".

Upon graduation, Shteyngart returned to New York with no clue what he wanted to make of himself.