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- Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
- The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
- Corra Harris
- Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
- Millicent Fenwick
- When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
- R. H. Grant
- What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Lives of the Poets
- Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
- The laws of Manu
- What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
- Jim Beggs
- Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
- Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
- Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
- Patricia Sampson
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