“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
Robert Hand (1942) American astrologer and writer
“The secret to feeling great about yourself is not to be found in searching for people who are less than you and then show yourself superior to them, but in searching for people who are more than you and then show yourself worthy of their company.”
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Context: The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself; he who goes away pleased with himself and his own wit is also greatly pleased with you. Most men would rather please than admire you; they seek less to be instructed, and even to be amused, than to be praised and applauded.
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“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
"Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company." This was a French maxim, late 16th century, as quoted by George Washington in his "Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation," Rule # 56 (ca. 1744) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/civility/transcript.html <br class="br">Misattributed
“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
