Philip James Bailey Quotes

The path marked Pride will lead you over a cliff.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

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.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.

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

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

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.

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.

We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

Just remember, Callum when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall’ - Lynette McGregor

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

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

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

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.

The taller they are, the longer they fall.

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.