Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

T.S. Eliot

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Caring for others over caring for yourself gets you out of your own self. But if caring for others becomes a source of pride, the self is strengthened and you're back to where you started.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

John C. Maxwell

If you're afraid to do something in a social setting, it is because you are more invested in someone else's opinion of you than you are in your own opinion of yourself.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Benjamin Franklin

To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

That's how it seems to go: We're never happy with what we have, we want what others have too. We want to have more than everyone else.

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