Isoroku Yamamoto Quotes

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

Nothing fails like success.

Of all spells that could be cast on a nation, that of believing itself invincible was perhaps the one most profitable broken …

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

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

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.

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.

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.

Nothing recedes like success.

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

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they've 'nailed it,' most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

Sometimes, you can get too big when you feel too good.

The minute you think, 'I have done it' or 'I know what is happening,' you will start to go down.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.

I was loving being the champion, and I wasn't listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way - that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.

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

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.