
Top 13 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
#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
#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
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