We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Malcolm X

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All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Patrick OShaughnessy

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

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