Quotes On Pride Goes Before A Fall

#1. Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

William Hazlitt

#2. High and holy ambition
to be a saint
is not opposed to holy humility
total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.

Peter Kreeft

#3. A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said ... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

Stephen King

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

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#5. It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

George Steiner

#6. Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

David Myers

#7. In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

Kevin Richardson

#8. Pride must be a summer thing, because it "comes before the fall.

Jarod Kintz

#9. Ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When

Ben Elton

#10. Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.

Rodolfo Costa

#11. Pride doesn't go before a fall, it keeps you from falling.

Shane Peacock

#12. Pride goes before the fall.

Michelle Hodkin

#13. I told her that saying goodbye didn't matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#14. I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall ... but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

Wil Wheaton

#15. we had everything before us,

Charles Dickens

#16. Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Anonymous

#17. Pride goeth before the fall ... but you've already fallen, haven't you?

Melissa Marr

#18. Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Gladys Taber

#19. There's a reason they say,Pride goeth before a fall.

Richelle Mead

#20. Extroverts communicate well with others, Introverts communicate well with themselves

Pablo

#21. Says, Shuts himself up like a corpse one day, eats like an

Anthony Doerr

#22. In all of eternity, no faery born has overcome me in anything.'
Aaah. Pride goeth before the fall, my friend"
Irial stood and clasped Devlin's hand
"but you've already fallen, haven't you?'
And to that, Devlin had no answer.

Melissa Marr

#23. such a short time. I am about to tell our barker,

Michelle Moran

#24. I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!

Sarah Gadon

#25. And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

Vikram Seth

#26. IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients' somatic cells.

Shinya Yamanaka

#27. Scripture said that "pride goes before fall". Just let pride go alone. Don't go in its company, else fall pursues both of you!

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. Pride goeth before destruction," he quoted, "and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#29. Teresa blames herself for believing that she was indispensable to Mahmoud. Pride goeth before a fall.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#30. I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#31. Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

Sherrilyn Kenyon