Pride Downfall Quotes

#1. Much later I realized that Russian people, because of the poverty and squalor of their lives, love to amuse themselves with sorrow--to play with it like children, and are seldom ashamed of being unhappy.

Maxim Gorky

#2. I learned on film at NYU. I was probably the last generation that was analog. Anyone who was a year younger than me, it was probably all digital.

Colin Trevorrow

#3. Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.

Laozi

#4. resisting was only going to accentuate how weak my position really was. I stopped fighting, as there was no need to broadcast it.

Donna Augustine

#5. A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

Bear Grylls

#6. Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

Karel Capek

#7. Being angry isn't always for a reason that makes sense.

Orson Scott Card

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

Laozi

#9. Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor.

Charles Dow

#10. All those who rejoice in the success of the church's enemies will share with them in their downfall; and those who have most indulged themselves in pride and pleasure are the least able to bear calamities; their sorrows will be as excessive as their pleasure and jollity were before.

Matthew Henry

#11. I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

Richard C. Armitage

#12. I grew up thinking that because I couldn't read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn't capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.

Suze Orman

#13. Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.

Daisaku Ikeda