Maren Morris Quotes

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

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.

Just being in the industry that I'm in, you get people building up your ego - 'Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.' So I started believing the hype - 'Yes, I am a god!'

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

I was a cocky kid.

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

You never want to inhale your press clippings.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

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

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Pride will spit in pride's face.