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.

Thomas Mann

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

William Shakespeare

Fragile egos make for fragile friendships.

The Stoic Emperor

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

Shame is pride's cloak.

William Blake

El principio más profundo en la naturaleza humana es el anhelo de ser apreciado.

William James