Horace Quotes

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

I spent a lot of time quasi-fascinated with characters who were super-dumb and super-cocky. I always liked that combination.

I think everybody thinks they can have the next $100 million venue. I think there is a bit of arrogance in that.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.

The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.

I'm the best. I should win everything.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

It's good to have a healthy ego because that pushes you to succeed. But when you cross a line, and your views are not balanced, that's when you get into trouble.

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.

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

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

Pride is a fool's fortress

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason not to be.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.