Quotes About Arrogance

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

Egos turn me off, big time.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.

My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

You're so used to feeling superior that you've forgotten there are people who might know something you don't.

The arrogance of sixteen! If only I had retained it!

Boast disguised as confession. Threat disguised as confession.

At once, it's clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don't have the arrogance. Apparently, I'm too "vulnerable" for ferocity. I'm not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.

One look tells you ours have had more food, nicer clothing, and better dental care," said Dean Highbottom. "Assuming anything more, a physical, mental, or especially a moral superiority, would be a mistake. That sort of hubris almost finished us off in the war.

No soporto a la gente que se cree moralmente superior. Nadie la soporta.

The rebels had been making slow but steady progress to the Capitol, although arrogance kept that reality from being widely acknowledged in the city.

Gregor looked at the girl's face and could tell by her arrogant expression that there had been no luck involved at all.

Too many Europeans interpreted military superiority as intellectual and even biological superiority.

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.