The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.
Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.