Richelle Mead Quotes

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

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

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

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

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

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

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

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

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.

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

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

Pride goes before destruction.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

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

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

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

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

Thinking you're a genius is death.

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

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.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

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.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

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