Owen Feltham Quotes

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Nothing fails like success.

Failure has gone to his head.