Quotes About Arrogance

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

God is still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate, to me, is outrageous.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

No one likes someone who's really overconfident.

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.

What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.

Fame is a thing where people can overdo it and get a big head.

Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make.

Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

that there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces

Get rid of pride, and riches will do no harm.

most religious people had given up their right to being human beings by claiming they had the God's truth and nobody else had any truth.

Sometimes it's the educated people that are the stupidest people.

As Bertrand Russell, the famous British mathematical philosopher and Nobel laureate, famously lamented in an essay condemning the rise of Nazi Germany, "the fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

He narrowed his eyes to slits so that he could peer into the eyes of this shameless, strutting personage to whom, apparently, modesty was unknown. He took careful note of the fact that the king - "Lucy," the priest called him - was not glaring venomously. King Lucy was grinning, King Lucy was having a good time.

The folly of humankind is that it believes it is impervious to decay

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

A vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.

I can positively assist you to explore and appreciate the variables of humility instead of the constants of pride and arrogance

Anyway, the trick is simply this: No matter what happens, keep your heart open. Wide open. The heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the arrogance of ego would presume that it requires protection. To open your heart is to reduce your ego, and this is the only magic that is ever required to experience the naked truth.

It was clear Jackson was the sort of young man who considers himself rather smarter than he is, and who is naturally cruel but thinks himself a decent fellow.

There was a clatter of footsteps on the flooring, and they looked up to see Owen approaching. He was trying to conceal his sheepishness behind an arrogant façade, and almost – but not quite – failing. 'I know, I know,' he said, holding up his hands. 'Don't all rush to hug me, you'll only embarrass me.' 'Hug you?' queried Jack. 'Hey, even I have standards.

It's true you have better hair than I do," Trump said matter-of-factly. "But I get more pussy than you do.

FK THAT. I AM TUCKER MAX. I AM BETTER THAN ALL OF YOU.