Billy Graham Quotes

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

Great success is a great temptation.

Success is sweet and treacherous.

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

Ego can be a dangerous thing. We all have one but it needs to be contained.

Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.

And there has to be a level of gratitude and a little bit of pride. But I want that pride to be quick so that I don't soak in it too much. Because I've met a lot of jerks in this business. And I don't want to be one.

You can't get too excited about your own medicine.

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

I have a clear conscience and never let success get to my head. You know that when you achieve something, you can change the way you are very easily.

Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside your head.

Success is easy to take for granted.

Don't let awards get the best of you.

I was unbeatable - until I wasn't.

I'm trying not to get too big-headed.

When stardom gets on your head, you don't even realise.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I think that's the biggest thing - staying humble, because the story you hear a lot of times is that guys who have success let it get to their head.

I just always told myself that I can never get big-headed if I become successful.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

What I've noticed is that when people win huge and they have those huge, huge successes, sometimes they forget about the actual acting of it, and sometimes it's hard to come down from their perch.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?

It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.