He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Stephen King

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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself.

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.

For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is you.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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