If we don't chase things--sometimes the things following us can catch up. — L. M. Montgomery. Canadian novelist (1874–1942)
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.