Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?
Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.
The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
I think that I've been living on my laurels.
As Pride increases, Fortune declines.
When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.
