Quotes About Hubris

Tis when we act as our own little gods that we tend to get into trouble. That is when fear overtakes trust

Pride is a steamroller. It'll clear the path for a while, but sooner or later it'll shift into reverse, and then . . . look out.

nothing lasted forever, that they must use each moment, each day, as a rare gift. That they must never allow the cloak of hubris and self-indulgence to stop them from appreciating, nurturing, protecting those closest to them.

As a rule, people aren't good at handling power. And the second you think you're better at controlling your power than anyone else, you've already taken the first step.

That cowboy's really full of himself. He thinks he's something and that means he's not.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Pride comes before a fall.

Possessed he is with greatness and speaks not to himself but with a pride that quarrels at self-breath.

Never be too pompous to take simple advice. For ignorance will be your demise.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

A man is proud until he falls.

It is well known in the legal profession that many judges, upon ascending the bench, think they are three steps closer to God.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.

What causes all this?" "Pride. What else?

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt.

Education certainly gives victory, although victory sometimes produces forgetfulness of education; for many have grown insolent from victory in war, and this insolence has engendered in them innumerable evils; and many a victory has been and will be suicidal to the victors; but education is never suicidal.

And that reputation was a true one, for the defeat which came upon us was our own doing. We were never conquered by others, and to this day we are still unconquered by them; but we were our own conquerors, and received defeat at our own hands.

They worshipped themselves as the measure of all significance

Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments.

Men and women who seek to become gods must first lose their humanity.