Quotes About Arrogance

Success didn't spoil me I've always been insufferable.

When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.

Modesty isn't always a virtue

Don't let success lead to arrogance and failure lead to criticism.

Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess. - Ch. 5

You can have pride in what you do each day," said Sister Yu, "but not arrogance in what you were born with." She

I don't like superior attitudes based on well-poised intellect. I hate well-poised intellects.

It is this superiority, this contemptuous but absolutely normal and unremarkable arrogance, that he now sees as the essence of sexual depravity, and also as a first step toward killing his wife. Having actually killed, he sees the sex he took for granted as murderous in its diminution of human life-how it made women's humanity invisible, meaningless; but the prerogatives of both sex and class made the exploitation as invisible as gravity, as certain.

Her mother, who, since the death of the King, her father, had nothing in the world she cared for so much as this little Princess, was so terribly afraid of losing her that she quite spoiled her, and never tried to correct any of her faults. The consequence was that this little person, who was as pretty as possible, and was one day to wear a crown, grew up so proud and so much in love with her own beauty that she despised everyone else in the world.

Pride renders faith impossible.

The sprinter unwisely indulges his arrogance against the marathon runner, and likewise, parents who encourage their children's narcissism do them no favours. It is best to accomplish something before becoming famous, because if the fame comes first, it often precludes accomplishment...You don't build a career by playing Carnegie Hall. You build a career and then Carnegie Hall will invite you to play.

At its worst, privilege is blindness, allowing us to blithely go on in our god playing, not even aware of the insults to image bearers that happen under our noses every day.

A proud man will be set against all that is holy, for he is the God of his own world.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Nothing has so much exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves.

For who will dare to force his way out of the crowd, — not of the mere vulgar, — but of the vain and banded aristocracy of intellect, and presume to join the almost supernatural beings that stand by themselves aloof?

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

Cualquier tarugo miserable que no tiene nada en el mundo de lo que pueda sentirse orgulloso, recurre al último recurso, vanagloriarse de la nación a la que casualmente pertenece.