You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.
A winner must first know what losing's like.
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.