Quotes About Arrogance

I don't see how that is any of your business." Stupid, shiny Volvo owner.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Find me any performer anywhere who isn't egocentric. You'd better believe you're good, or you've got no business being out there.

You might consider that you yourself are an arrogant person or you might consider that someone else is an arrogant person, but everybody who has ever felt even a moment of arrogance knows that arrogance is just a cover-up for really feeling that you're the worst horse, and always trying to prove otherwise.

The truth is that when we really begin to do this, we're going to be continually humbled. There's not going to be much room for the arrogance that holding on to ideals can bring. The arrogance that inevitably does arise is going to be continually shot down by our own courage to step forward a little further.

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

Don't ponder others' weak points, becoming arrogant about your own accomplishments.

The body of Christ—yes, we may be; broken, we certainly are. And we may be limping along to begin with, but when Christ takes us into his hands he breaks us again—tears us to shreds at times. He has to grab hold of our pride… arrogance… contempt… cynicism… hardheartedness… He has to break those things up, or there would never be any humility, no compassion, no gratitude.

Your American, you wouldn't know if you were up yourself.

taking pride in such ignorance is self-defeating.

Behind the incongruity between actual and perceived reality, there always lies an element of intellectual arrogance, of intellectual rigour and dogmatism. 'It is I, not they, who know what poor people can afford', the Japanese industrialist in effect asserted. 'People behave according to economic rationality, as every good Marxist knows,' as Khrushchev implied. This explains why the incongruity is so easily exploited by innovators: they are left alone and undisturbed.

Third, it can mean deep, wondering reverence, or "awe" at something immeasurably superior. This is an emotion that is much rarer today than ever before in the history of the world, probably because modern life is so full of scientific knowledge and technological power over nature that we live in a dream of arrogant cleverness and a cocoon of predictable comforts.

Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption?

The root of pride is found to consist in man not being in some way subject to God and His rule.

Overconfidence is a curse

Thorn illustrated that there lies a point when bravery shades into arrogance, and arrogance shades into idiocy.

This is how upstarts succeed—by avoiding arrogance and cultivating modesty. But even more important, they need to demonstrate to the people that the hierarchical social order is preferable to the alternative. In the Roman case, it was the fatigue of persistent internal wars that led to the re-establishment of monarchy. Monarchies

Want to kill a company quickly? Decide you are better than your customers.

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

I'll tell you what fouls us up, Roy; it's our goddamn superior intelligence!" She glared at her husband, her small, high breasts rising and falling rapidly. "We're so smart ––Roy, you're doing it right now; goddamn you, you're doing it now !

The pompous son of a bitch knows everythingit's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

In every one of us is the total of all we have ever been, the sullen child, the arrogant youth, the suckling babe. Every fear endured in childhood is lodged somewhere in here.' He tapped his temple. 'And every act of heroism or cowardice, generosity or meanness of spirit.

Smugness was easy in a world without dust or carrion smell or craters that had been factories.

Trump? Obama? Putin? Why must we pity the politi-scum addicted to their own infallible "godliness" when there are more entertaining alternatives?