Jim Butcher Quotes

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

There were the giants, great of stature and expert in war.... They perished because they had no wisdom; they perished through their own foolishness.

Massive self-confidence is boring.

A bit of arrogance is nice every now and then.

In baseball I was pretty cocky.

Pride goes before destruction.

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

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

You have decided that other clergy all know nothing and you alone know everything, and have sought to use your knowledge not to build but to destroy so that on these grounds we may believe that St. Gregory, whose name you have claimed for yourself, was prophesying when he said: "The mind of the prelate is often exalted by the abundance of his subjects".

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

Nemesis follows hubris.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

[Douglas] MacArthur is the type of man who thinks that when he gets to heaven, God will step down from the great white throne and bow him into His vacated seat.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

It all goes completely to your head.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

DuPont had the idea there was nobody in the universe who could tell them anything.