Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Nothing recedes like success.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

Great good fortune coming suddenly and unexpectedly tends to make a people insolent

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

Success tempts many to their ruin.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

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.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

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

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.