Mickey Rourke Quotes

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

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.

I got ideas above my station, and I made mistakes.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

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.

I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

Do not say beforehand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

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.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

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

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!