Quotes About Arrogance

The U.S.A. have a 'football arrogance,' which means winning is in their DNA - nothing else is good enough.

What you see of me on TV and all of that, that is me - that's truly how I feel. I'm just multiplying it. It's that arrogance, that confidence, the belief that I'm the best, and there's a true attitude that I don't care what others think.

There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

If I see someone that's too arrogant, that's not how I was raised.

Money changes people. It all seemed too big and arrogant to me I didn't feel like a member of the group. Everybody was fighting.

Black people, too, are capable of being culturally arrogant.

I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger... I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like.

I shouldn't say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want to be.

Now, I love movies so much, but I find a lot of movies to be arrogant in the way they're kind of know-it-alls - they have perfect characters on the screen that know everything about themselves.

I have always been an arrogant man.

Rich, arrogant, lucky, mollycoddled and stupid. That's always people's preconception.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give impudence to his betters!

The most ignorant are the most conceited.

The boastful are thin-skinned and the intolerant are forever looking over their shoulders

It is the sin of pride and arrogance that has tended to vitiate the missionary impulse and to make of it an instrument of self-righteousness on the one hand and racial superiority on the other.

The French came to Morocco to build roads, railways, hospitals, schools, fashion sense - all the things that the average Frenchman knows to be indispensable to a modern civilization - and when five o'clock came, and the French looked upon their works and saw that they were good, they reckoned they had bloody well earned the right to live like Maharajahs. Which, for a time, they did.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

Money is nothing more than arrogance on paper.

Politics doesn't require talent, intelligence, or good looks. Truly, someone like Donald Rumsfeld, a mediocre government functionary with no discernible talent, intelligence, or charm, is a greater international celebrity than Mick Jagger. Rumsfeld, despite being a has-been, is known in every corner of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa for his insanity and arrogance, while Jagger is admired by a mere couple hundred million music enthusiasts, huddled mostly in the First World.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

One of those arrogant repeaters went to the hole for having a sassy look in his eyes. The charge was 'visual insubordination.

Spike," but at some point, he decided to go by "Magic Spike." That tells you everything. In his own mind, he became magic. That was his downfall. And it's the downfall of almost all players and gangsters and hustlers. They get away with breaking the law so many times,

and the money is so good, they become intoxicated not only with the riches—they become intoxicated with themselves.