Margaret Deland Quotes

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

Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

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

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.

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

I was a cocky kid.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

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

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

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

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.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

Massive self-confidence is boring.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

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

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!