Erik Larson Quotes

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

A fatal mistake in war is to underrate the strength, feeling and resources of an enemy.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

I was unbeatable - until I wasn't.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

I rarely meet a young man who doesn't already think he is.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.

Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.

The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.