Quotes About Arrogance

Employees in large, older firms often have difficulty getting a transformation process started because of the lack of leadership coupled with arrogance, insularity, and bureaucracy.

I had been conditioned to believe that there is nothing more dangerous than the arrogance of ignorance; now I would learn that it does not compare with arrogance of knowledge, knowledge that often is confused with wisdom.

IDENTITY CLUE 12: SHE HAS BEEN PROUD AGAINST THE LORD "…for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel" (Jeremiah 50:29d) ". . . 'See, I am against you, O arrogant one,' declares the LORD, the LORD Almighty, 'for your day has come, the time for you to be punished." (Jeremiah 50:31) "And the most proud shall stumble and fall…" (Jeremiah 50:32a)

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws.

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.

If there were honorary degrees for assholes, he'd be a doctor of everything," Lily said.

Patron. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery').

They stamp on any change: they close the way and keep the type fixed because they've got the arrogance to think themselves perfect. As they reckon it, they. and only they, are in the true image; very well, then it follows that if the image is true, they themselves must be God: and, being God, they reckon themselves entitled to decree, "thus far, and no farther." That is their great sin: they try to strangle the life out of Life.

The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity

I told you it was easy," HARV said. "True, but you say that about everything." "That's because everything is easy for me." "Everything but humility." "No, that's easy, too. I just choose not to practice it.

He disdained to learn from so drab a teacher as Experience.

Envy is the offspring of pride,

when you start to feel like you are better than someone else, you should probably stick your head in a toilet because at that moment your thoughts are crap.

I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna...and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me." "It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

screw the rules i have money

It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.

So our chess game begins tonight, Duchess. At eleven o'clock. I will give you one hour to try to win, blindfolded or no." His teeth showed very white when he smiled. "And then I shall win." Jemma sniffed and turned up her nose. "Pride goeth before a fall, Duke." "You will fall before me," he said, his smile a blatant challenge. "Backwards.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

A know-all or know-it-all is a person who behaves as if he or she knows everything. Now listen up, no one knows everything, regardless of world renowned professors and intellectuals. Oh! yes, even you personally you don't know everything and you will never know everything, no matter your level of education or qualification. Thus, disregard whatever you think you know presently and then humble yourself in order to learn something new from someone else or others. ~Emeasoba George

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How easy it is to believe yourself a god by the heart, and how hard it is to be one by the mind!

Who among us, left to himself, would not take up space, air itself, and regard himself as its owner?