A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

Nathaniel Branden

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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

François de La Rochefoucauld

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Michel de Montaigne

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Ego is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

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