Quotes About Arrogance

Fools and stubborn people make rich lawyers.

The boaster and the proud person are fools.

Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned…. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.

Pride only hurts, it never helps.

It is unwise for them to be so very happy, for the gods will feel the need to humble us.

Vanity is not like a horse or an elephant requiring expensive fodder.

Whenever Power removes all checks from its path to make its career easy, it triumphantly rides into its ultimate crash of death.

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

There should be both a humbleness and an arrogance. Humble when you are on the team coach and you wear the club suit, you do up your top button and wear your tie, you represent the club in the right way. Then you sign autographs for the people who pay your wages.

Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

I think I'm the best at everything that I do. I may be biased because it's me. But if you ask me that, that's what I'm going to tell you.

My biggest problem is overconfidence.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

Like, if you don't want to talk to me it's your loss, and basically I'm a big deal so you should be bloody lucky to be talking to me.

When you're actually talking over someone, it's as if you're just pontificating and they're not even there. And their body language - they're trying to get away from you. And if you're pontificating at an audience, and there's a break, the non-martyrs in the audience are not going to come back. I mean, they just want to get away from you.

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

Massive self-confidence is boring.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

I am a self-made brat.

There are a lot of people very sure of themselves that need to be brought back down to Earth. As good as they think they are, they're really not.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Success is for creeps.