Eoin Colfer Quotes

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.

Sometimes I feel like you can toot your own trumpet too much. I don't really like that.

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

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

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

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.