Quotes About Arrogance

Pretentiousness was probably my substitute for actual confidence.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.

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

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.

Solamente las mujeres que confían plenamente en sí mismas, las arrogantes, las extrovertidas, las orgullosas, las poseedoras de mentes rigurosas, son capaces de mantener una conversación intensa, audaz, ingeniosa.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Hay que tener cuidado con la soberbia, porque es más dañosa para el entendimiento que la ignorancia.

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

An arrogant man knows his own worth, and if he is clever as well, knows yours.

It takes just a litte attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

And no, I think i'm better than you because I am better than you.

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.

The beauty of me is that I'm very rich.

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.

Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.

I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.