Pride Falls Quotes

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

[New York reformers] tried to stand so straight that they fell over backwards.

When pride thaws, look for floods.

Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God's enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke.

I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

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

Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

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

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.