Quotes About Arrogance

Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.

It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.

I've always felt that Donald Trump was a Dickensian character because he is so ridiculous. With his hair and his arrogance, he is certainly Dickensian in his absurdity.

I don't mind rude people. I want people that I can make money with, so if their executional abilities are good, and they're arrogant and rude, I don't care.

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

There's some jerks. There's some big egos. There are a few that think they're one of the Founding Fathers... in both parties.

Showrunning is an arrogant job. You have to be arrogant and hold yourself strong in order for people to hear you. Confidence partners with arrogance. The only person you have to trust is yourself. The only instinct you can trust is your own.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

When you hold the world in your palm and inspect it only from a bird's-eye view, you tend to become arrogant— you do not realize that things get blurred when seen from an enormous distance," Yunus wrote.

Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

Do you know what it's like going through life better than everybody? It's hard.

I don't know if you guys know this but I'm sort of a big deal.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

In the 1930s the eminent historian Will Durant wrote, "Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit, and a unifying, pacifying love for all living things."2

As proud as Lucifer.

The interesting thing about the rich is that they like being told where to get off. They confuse it with honesty

It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.

He was just a rich city boy who enjoyed playing pirates and had never expected anyone to stand up to him. He'd come looking for a fight, and now that a fight had found him he didn't know what to do with it.

The union of altitude and solitude fills me with an arrogant sense of ownership.