Janet Evanovich Quotes

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

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

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

Arrogance can be deadly.” The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that.

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

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

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

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

I'm not great enough to be humble.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

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

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.

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.

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

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

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

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.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.