One difference between the competition and the ambition is the main focus of the latter on oneself and not the others.

Since many people generally like who are similar to them, the ones who are different than the norm sometimes wonder is it because, or although, nobody like them it happened that nobody likes them.

Lucky me not to be able to get along with too many people; unlucky them not to get along with me.

It is very bad that some successful people don't really feel they are so, but it is even worse when some unsuccessful people don't really know they are.

What really affects our thoughts is not what we hear; it's what we want to hear

Sometimes neither what we say nor what we do absolutely describes the true we are; it is what we "believe". And, this is often not fully shared with the public.