A Quote by William Hazlitt

Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
English - Critic
April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

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

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Gladys Taber

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Joseph Addison

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

Richelle Mead

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

Patrick Rothfuss

My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn’t advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That’s all that I can say. ‘If I fall....’ - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.

U.G. Krishnamurti

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

Melissa Marr

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.

John C. Maxwell

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

Stephen King

Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured - rather it spreads

John of Kronstadt

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

Leo Tolstoy

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

David Myers

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

J. C. Ryle

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

Wil Wheaton

Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.

Mark Batterson

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