On the contrary, in all that he says or does, he will be modest, unpretentious, unassuming; exhibiting his true character in performing rather than in boasting, in doing rather than in talking.
Want of respect for the feelings of others usually originates in selfishness, and issues in hardness and repulsiveness of manner.

It may not proceed from malignity so much as from want of sympathy and want of delicacy--a want of that perception of, and attention to, those little and apparently trifling things by which pleasure is given or pain occasioned to others.

Indeed, it may be said that in self-sacrificingness, so to speak, in the ordinary intercourse of life, mainly consists the difference between being well and ill bred.
Without some degree of self-restraint in society, a man may be found almost insufferable.

No one has pleasure in holding intercourse with such a person, and he is a constant source of annoyance to those about him.

For want of self-restraint, many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own crossgrained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.
It has been said that men succeed in life quite as much by their temper as by their talents.