Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

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

Through your rags I see your vanity.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

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.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.

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

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

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

The greatest enemy a man can have is his prosperity.

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.

Pride goes before destruction.

Arrogance always destroys opportunity

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

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

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish.

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

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.