Quotes About Arrogance

Self importance is pride of a soul.

Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.

When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?

Vanity dulls the senses.

The second you think that you are something is the same second you confirm that you are nothing

Will we act, or will we sit on our hands? I don't want to show up on that day only to hear God say, "This nation—where is My church? There's still too much sin, too much covenant with Baal, too much pornography, too much perversion, too much materialism, greed, pride, and arrogance. They have missed their hour of grace; only judgment awaits.

He was a fool to think he could have love twice in this life. Arrogance. He held her hand close his chest with both of his hands. No one was entitled to anything in this life, not the least of all love.

Why a wise man think that he is more smarter than a Fool!

Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.

Why Banning Miller, what a vision you are in your fine dress. Must've taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get you into that getup. 'Course, your daddy tells me it takes the space of a schoolboy's wink to get you out of it again.

He had little respect for the intelligence of other people at the best of times. Now, at the worst of times, he was inclined to regard them all as morons. His fears were warranted, but not altogether for the reasons one might have supposed.

The candor of Ann's absolute nakedness, not caught in unselfconsciousness like a young nude in a romantic painting, but fully aware of her erotic power, roused in Evelyn an arrogance of body, a lust that burned through her nerves like the fire of the sun they both stood in. This was the freedom she wanted, an animal freedom exposed to the emptiness of sky and land and water.

Kovin monen jumala on taivaisiin asti venynyttä narsismia.

It's not the sense of entitlement shared by spoiled rich kids. Instead it's the misguided and arrogant belief shared by so many business owners and executives that their business has a right to continue to exist and do well simply by virtue of either being in business or having been successful at some point.

Never in his unlimited lifespan had he ever allowed anyone to call him anything but President Gorlax. Even when he was a fledgling, and not even a president. The other kids hated him for it. He had them killed.

Egos are drawn to bigger egos.

There is nothing the ego likes less than to hear about itself.

Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. Her

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did.

how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?

it became clear to her observers that she was not quick at shifting her facial scenery. It was as though her countenance had so long been set in an expression of unchallenged superiority that the muscles had stiffened, and refused to obey her orders.

Mrs. Fairford smiled. "I've sometimes thought," she mused, "that Mr. Popple must be the only gentleman I know; at least he's the only man who has ever told me he was a gentleman—and Mr. Popple never fails to mention it.

No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him.