Quotes About Arrogance

But I wasn't there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania.

General Douglas MacArthur was the most brilliant, most important, and most valuable military leader in American history—at least that's what Douglas MacArthur thought. When

Nothing could be more gracefully majestic than his step and manner, had they not been marked by a predominant air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority.

simplicity may be improved, but pride and conceit never. Well

my principal fault was an unconquerable pitch of pride, which exposed me to frequent mortification.

ABCs of business decay, which are arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency.

We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Some men, by dint of excessive egotism, manage to persuade their contemporaries that they are very great men indeed: they publish their acquirements so loudly in people's ears, and keep up their own praises so incessantly, that the world's applause is actually taken by storm.

I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards

Look down on me and you see a fool, look up at me and you see a god. Look straight at me and you see yourself.

The male ego is a curious thing. It's about the size of a small continent but it's extremely brittle.

This just ain't my day, is it?' They came to the statue of a naked woman and Lewis slapped her on the buttocks. 'You wouldn't turn me down, would you, princess?' he said.

Then there was David, lording it up at Buckingham Palace, thinking he was king of the shit heap. That guy was definitely nuts, like every dictator that had gone before him. Nero, Caligula, Henry the Eighth, Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Margaret Thatcher, Colonel Gaddafi, that crazy North Korean bastard who was in Team America, Kim Jong whatever.

The worst thing about him was that while he appeared to know more facts than could be contained in the world's largest encyclopaedia, he seemed not to know the most important fact of all – that nobody was remotely interested in a word he had to say.

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

My father has a high opinion of his opinion

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there's arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there.

The thought of my youthful lack of humility made me nauseous now. I had been an arrogant asshole and, in the midst of that, my mother died.

He reminded me of all the golden boys I'd known in my life- classically handsome and charmingly sure of his place at the very top of the heap, confident that the world was his and that he was safe in it, without ever having considered otherwise.

Swetland remembered, "Ficus declared that if anyone asked what the Big O51 of anything was, he was simply going to say, 'I'm far too handsome to answer that question.

Leroy was sixteen and the oldest so he thought he was too good to drive. Let baby boys do that, he'd say.

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