Melissa Marr Quotes

Pride goes before destruction.

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

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

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

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.

Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

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.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

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

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.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

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

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.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.