Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.
One story sounds good until another is told
If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity
The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.
He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.