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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Ambition aspires to descend.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.