Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes

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

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

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

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

Pride goes before destruction.

Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

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.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

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

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

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

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

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

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