Stuart Stevens Quotes

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

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

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

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

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

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.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

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.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

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

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

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.

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

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

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

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

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

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.