It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Marcus Aurelius

To be true to yourself, you must risk being disliked by others for not living up to their expectation of you.

Eric Peng

Egotism sucks us down like the law of gravity.

Cyril Connolly

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

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Samuel Johnson

The best way to get approval is not to need it.

Hugh MacLeod