Quotes About Arrogance

Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-respect. We all see the world through the prism of our identity. If our self-worth is low, it affects everything we do. The point of life is to contribute to others, but without a certain self-regard, it is sometimes difficult to make breakfast.

We humans have been brilliantly clever... almost as clever as we think we are, though not, perhaps, as wise.

I save him my diatribe about people with bullshit EdDs and PsyDs that I've run into in academia who couldn't pass a fifth-grade science exam all insisting that they be addressed with the same reverence as the head of oncology at a research hospital.

Was that faith or arrogance and selfishness? Should I dislike him for wanting us to ride on smooth waters, or should I rock the boat and condemn him for not seeing me as more of an individual? Many of the women I knew did that, some so vigorously that they defeated their own marriages.

Vanniv laughed. "Goddess, you love to hear yourself talk, don't you? I mean, I respect that — my voice is amazing — but you're coming on a little strong with the megalomania.

YOU KNOW HOW WHEN you're a senior in high school, and you officially know absolutely everything about everything and no one can tell you different, but on the other hand, at the same time, you're dumber than a poorly translated instruction manual for a spoon?

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

The whole concept of government is corrupt, Mr Turnhouse. It is not for us to judge those who habitually inform us they are our betters.

Nie jesteÅ›, cho? lubisz mniema? inaczej, specjalnie mÄ…dry. Ale na to, by spróbowa? mnie powstrzyma?, jesteÅ› za mÄ…dry.

Truly, great is pride and blindness, so that the blood dripping from the scaffold would be called justice. - Epigraph to the 5'th chapter

Entre los príncipes, especialmente entre los más jóvenes, aquéllos que no tenían nada que hacer, se impuso la estúpida moda de liberar bellezas prisioneras. La mayor parte, por suerte, se rompió la nuca.

it is the West's provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself

It's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves.

How two such charming women as Mrs. Brandon and Peggy can tolerate such a bounder as Francis beats me. I don't mean there's anything wrong with him, but he looks so damned pleased with himself.

Fue la arrogancia de un hombre que se creía tan seguro del amor de una mujer que no consideraba merecedor de esfuerzo hacerse merecedor de él.

had had twenty-six people arrested and thrown into the dungeons for making rude comments about him, and it had never crossed his mind even once to wonder why he had yet to hear something nice being said.

Why did she feel the need to sneer? Because people who talked about books or pictures or films made her feel ignorant and out of her depth.

They need you. They wouldn't feel superior without someone to despise. They're inadequate.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

I've seen guys who had the craziest amount of talent growing up and let that hype and whatnot and the money go to their head.

Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.