John Milton Quotes

[Douglas] MacArthur is the type of man who thinks that when he gets to heaven, God will step down from the great white throne and bow him into His vacated seat.

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

You have decided that other clergy all know nothing and you alone know everything, and have sought to use your knowledge not to build but to destroy so that on these grounds we may believe that St. Gregory, whose name you have claimed for yourself, was prophesying when he said: "The mind of the prelate is often exalted by the abundance of his subjects".

We thought because we had power, we had wisdom.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

I'm the best. I should win everything.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

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

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.