Jason Whitlock Quotes

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

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

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

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Pride leaves no room for grace.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

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

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

[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.

I'm not great enough to be humble.