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Egotism/Humility
- People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
- -- Satya Sai Baba
- Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
- -- Benjamin Disraeli
- Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
- -- Margaret Halsey
- If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
- -- Kate Halverson
- The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- -- Lucille S. Harper
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- -- Carl Gustav Jung
- Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
- -- H. L. Mencken
- You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
- -- Olin Miller
- I would have made a good Pope.
- -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
- -- Colin Powell
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