Wentworth Dillon 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.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

Nemesis follows hubris.

Other men would … have to pay for that terrible arrogance and vainglory.

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

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.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

The path marked Pride will lead you over a cliff.

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

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

Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

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

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

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

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

The taller they are, the longer they fall.

We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. But what else could we have thought? Only that it began and ended with us. What do we know, even now? Ask the children. Look at what they grew up to be. We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away.

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.