113 Quotes About Hubris

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches?Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse.Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.

Best not to take, yet doubt its strength,A leash with Demons at its length.

The human mind has a fantastic ability to trick itself out of its own best interests when pride is involved.

The word I use is hubris. Our word for arrogance that scrapes the stars, for violence and towering rage as ugly as the gods.

Boastfulness and excessive pride do not equate at all with humility and honesty, credibility and integrity. ~ Angelica Hopes, The F. Trilogy

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.