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Quotes About Arrogance

Donald began to realize that there was nothing he could do wrong, so he stopped trying to do anything 'right.' He became bolder and more aggressive because he was rarely challenged or held to account by the only person in the world who mattered - his father.
~ Mary L. Trump
We have a democracy of elections to elections. After winning an election, the parties become brazen and arrogant. They would do all wrong things and if you question them, they would say - why don't you change the government next time? But that would be five years later. What do I do right now? I am suffering right now.
~ Arvind Kejriwal
I had a great job, living a great lifestyle... and just started doing the wrong things, getting a little bit cocky.
~ Tim Donaghy
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
~ Warren Buffett
In WWE, a lot of people took my passion as me thinking I was better or knew more.
~ Drew McIntyre
You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.
~ George Clooney
It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
~ Walter Cronkite
It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.
~ Joyce Cary
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
~ Lee Strobel
The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.
~ Erik Larson
Do you know who takes weekday shuttle flights between Washington and New York? People who think they are too important for the train, let alone the bus.
~ Alex Pareene
'Sir' Richard Branson may be the Julian Assange of British business, in that both believe the world revolves around them. Hence Branson's decision to set up an air service between Manchester and London, above the route of the train line that's been taken from him.
~ Simon Hoggart
The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.
~ Walter Gropius
Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.
~ Mira Nair
Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.
~ Paul Henderson
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.
~ Graydon Carter
I am saying this with a certain sense of confidence and not arrogance. The defence ministry is being run without any middleman and in a transparent way. We have proved that defence procurement can happen without middlemen.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
~ Freeman Dyson
She's out of order." We laughed again. "Someone needs to tell her that the Earth—that's you—revolves around the sun. That's me.
~ Sister Souljah
a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!
~ Sister Souljah
The whole world was surprised by this war. We, the citizens of Yugoslavia, were even more surprised. When I think about it, I am still angry with myself. Is it possible that the war crept into our lives slowly, stealthily, like a thief? Why didn't we see it coming? Why didn't we do something to prevent it? Why were we so arrogant that we thought it could not happen to us? Were we really prisoners of a fairytale?
~ Slavenka Drakuli?
You know what America is-they're all like spoiled children. Anything goes, isn't that what they say?
~ Soheir Khashoggi
The arrogance of these people!
~ Soheir Khashoggi
absurdity of the claims so arrogantly set up by the masters, over beings designed by God to be as free as kings; and at the perfect stupidity of the slave, in admitting for one moment the validity of these claims.
~ Sojourner Truth