Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better. — Melinda French Gates

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All friends shall taste The wages of their virtue, and all foes The cup of their deserving.

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

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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. ― Soren A. Kierkegaard

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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. ― Dale Carnegie

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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. ― John Ruskin

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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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