Quotes About Arrogance

The self-esteem obsessed culture has taught us to put ourselves on the throne of God.

Pride comes before a fall.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Possessed he is with greatness and speaks not to himself but with a pride that quarrels at self-breath.

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

Self-righteousness is the most shameless slut of all.

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

Self righteousness belongs to narrow-minded.

The self-righteous never apologize.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Be modest in your behavior, if you really want to overcome arrogance. If you boast about your achievements and praise yourself, you will look dumb. People will assume you to be a snob. If you have done something that is praiseworthy, then let others decide.

Never be too pompous to take simple advice. For ignorance will be your demise.

Watch out for that thin line between confident and cocky.

A woman's counsel is not worth much, but he that despises it is no wiser than he should be

Probably the biggest advantage of success resides in the fact that you don't have to listen to good advice any more.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

If accomplishment is appreciated, be proud but never arrogant. Pride is feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, by which one measures one's stature or self-worth. A person who is arrogant may exaggerate one's own worth or importance in an overbearing manner.

Building confidence requires commitment and dedication. Arrogance simply poses to be self sufficient. In fact, it's easy to come off as arrogant. An arrogant person will rarely say, I don't know the answer, but I'll find out. Confident people admit mistakes and learn something from those experiences. Arrogant people can't see the strengths in their competitors, and if they do, they seek to minimize those competitors by bad-mouthing them.

A man is proud until he falls.

Although every country thought itself superior in its own way, was there ever a country that coined so many "super" terms from the federal bank of its narcissism, was not only superconfident but also truly superpowerful, that would not be satisfied until it locked every nation of the world into a full nelson and made it cry Uncle Sam?

the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.