Quotes About Self

When you get too big for your britches you split your pants and reveal yourself for what you are.
Leo Bascaglia

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us, or spare us.
Marcel Proust

Good people are good because they have come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry. 'I used to be angry every day, then every other, next, every two, then every three days!' When you succeed in passing 30 days, give sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.
Epictetus

You are obviously suffering from delusions of adequacy.
Alexis Carrington

When we see men of a contrary nature, we should turn inwards and examine our selves.
Confucius

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