Quotes About Arrogance

To assume you have it all figured out is a warning signal that you aren't humble enough to listen to God and to others. If you refuse to chisel away at arrogant attitudes, trouble lies ahead. You know very little if you claim to have all the answers.

I never try to get ahead of myself because there's nothing that bothers me more than cockiness. I don't think that's necessary at all.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

I love to be the center of attention. My oversized ego craves it and needs it.

To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses.

There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you're important, you're not.

Anyone who silences someone else because they believe the other person's opinion is false assumes infallibility. They must be absolutely certain that they are correct on the matter.

Your ego is not your amigo.

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

The bishop escorted Francis a short distance out into the courtyard. Bending over, he said to him in a hushed voice, careful Francis. You're overdoing it. That's how one finds God, Bishop. Francis answered. The bishop shook his head. Even virtue needs moderation; otherwise it can become arrogance. Man stands within the bounds of moderation; God stands outside them. I am heading for God, Bishop. said Francis, and he proceeded hastily towards the street door. He had no time to lose.

The need to humiliate those who raise their heads is an ineradicable element of the imperial mentality. In

In other words, first we rob and then destroy them, and then when they ask for a little bit of help, we kick them in the face. The technical term for this is Western civilization.

El discurso de los privilegios está siempre marcado por la confianza y el triunfalismo: conocemos el camino que tenemos delante, y no hay otro camino.

Is there anything more annoying than machismo?

Oh, what marvelous egomaniacs you men are!

Do you ever wonder at the arrogance of men who think they alone exist in the Universe?

lashes at him. "I never would have guessed." His lips twitched before he lifted the bottle to them. "Nothing personal." "Of course not. I don't like rude, arrogant men. That's nothing personal