Arrogance Quotes

I chase goals, not girls.

~ Amit Kalantri

I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man'. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'.

~ Rollo May

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

~ Criss Jami

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

~ Criss Jami

The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.

~ Criss Jami

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Her skirt was nice, but she was wearing a dull-colored blouse that wasn't at all attractive. I'd have to remember to tell her not to wear it when she was with me if the two of us were going to get together, I thought

~ Jonas Karlsson

Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and wherewithal to question certain truths deemed ‘fundamental’ by my betters. Defiance has made me stubborn—possibly even arrogant—enough to shrug off rejection and all fears thereof, no matter how lacerating to the self-esteem these could be. It has given me the will to seek only to satisfy myself.

~ Ashim Shanker

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it, the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

~ Criss Jami

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their superior self is a fiction, a coverup, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.

~ Maxwell Maltz

He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.

~ Christopher Paolini

Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.

~ Amber Hurdle

It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.

~ David Laskin

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine. He neither endeavours to impose upon you by the cunning devices of an artful impostor, nor by the arrogant airs of an assuming pedant, nor by the confident assertions of a superficial and imprudent pretender. He is not ostentatious even of the abilities which he really possesses. His conversation is simple and modest, and he is averse to all the quackish arts by which other people so frequently thrust themselves into public notice and reputation.

~ Adam Smith

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

~ Criss Jami

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who try to suspend judgement. Now contemplate epistemic humility. Think of someone heavily introspective, tortured by the awareness of his own ignorance. He lacks the courage of the idiot, yet has the rare guts to say I don't know. He does not mind looking like a fool or, worse, an ignoramus. He hesitates, he will not commit, and he agonizes over the consequences of being wrong. He introspects, introspects, and introspects until he reaches physical and nervous exhaustion.This does not necessarily mean he lacks confidence, only that he holds his own knowledge to be suspect. I will call such a person an epistemocrat; the province where the laws are structured with this kind of human fallibility in mind I will can an epistemocracy.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy.

~ Teresa Mummert

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to be tried lest they become too secure, too filled with pride, or even too eager to fall back upon external comforts.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.

~ Habeeb Akande

...If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else, Confidence is knowing no one is above you.

~ Habeeb Akande

The suicide committed by Sampson was partly determined by the craftiness of Delilah and partly decided by the disobedience of Sampson. Satan uses crafty means to set traps for us, but by our obedience of the laws of God, the traps remain functionless.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Underestimate is the sign of getting fucked up.

~ Toba Beta

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

~ Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...

~ Muse

It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

don’t be like so many writers,don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don’t be dull and boring andpretentious, don’t be consumed with self-love.the libraries of the world haveyawned themselves tosleepover your kind.don’t add to that.don’t do it.

~ Charles Bukowski

He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God's will that he began to admit that God's purposes might be different from his own. In short, he never forgot the men's contrast between the absolute goodness of God and the faltering goodness of all who are in the finite predicament.

~ Elton Trueblood

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

~ Muse

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

~ Richard Hugo

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.

~ Tahir Shah

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

~ N.t. Wright

My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?

~ Robert Buettner

Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson