Max Lucado Quotes

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

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

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

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

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.

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.

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.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

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

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

Arrogance can be deadly.” The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that.

Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

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

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

When pride thaws, look for floods.

The taller they are, the longer they fall.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

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

Thinking you're a genius is death.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.