I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. ― Michel de Montaigne

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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like. ― Will Rogers

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ― Khalil Gibran

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. - Hyman Rickover

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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. ― Rudyard Kipling

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As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you. ― C.S. Lewis

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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. ― Sophocles, Antigone

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The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. ― Criss Jami

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Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists. ― Criss Jami

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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone. ― C.S. Lewis

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