Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.

When you are too confident, that's when you hurt yourself.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

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

There were the giants, great of stature and expert in war.... They perished because they had no wisdom; they perished through their own foolishness.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

You have landed in Egypt, thinking to take possession of it. You have imagined that it was only peopled with cowards ! you who are a drum filled with wind….The death of the servants of the Messiah has been the reward given to you by God….What now remains of the seventy thousand who accompanied you? Dead, wounded, and prisoners !

A fatal mistake in war is to underrate the strength, feeling and resources of an enemy.

In international affairs, you pay for cockiness.

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

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

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

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

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.

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.