Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

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.

I've seen guys who had the craziest amount of talent growing up and let that hype and whatnot and the money go to their head.

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

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.

Arrogance always destroys opportunity

I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Pride is a fool's fortress

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

I've got soul and I'm super bad.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.