Hosea Ballou Quotes

The greatest enemy a man can have is his prosperity.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

Great good fortune coming suddenly and unexpectedly tends to make a people insolent

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

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

Success has ruined many a man.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

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

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Failure has gone to his head.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Nothing recedes like success.

It all goes completely to your head.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.