Arrogance Quotes

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

~ Elton Trueblood

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

~ David Halberstam

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

~ David Halberstam

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

~ Gustav Niebuhr

Insecurity was never humility, just as arrogance was never success.

~ Shannon L. Alder

All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.

~ Habeeb Akande

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.

~ Jay Woodman

Only God is in a position to look down upon someone.

~ Habeeb Akande

Never mistake arrogance for intellect.

~ D.b. Harrop

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.

~ Agatha Christie

Del UsionIf you knew the personHe thinks he isYou'd have to admitHe's one very special guy.

~ Laurence Overmire

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

~ Philip Zaleski

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.

~ Aditya Ajmera

I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

~ Jimmy Breslin

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.

~ James Robertson

I do not punish my enemies with arrogance; I punish ,them, undoubtedly more subtle - with devoted respect.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

~ Joe Cawley

Pride is the mother of arrogance.

~ Toba Beta

Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.

~ Toba Beta

I am incapable of mediocrity.

~ Serge Gainsbourg

My father referred to it as the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers. He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in pride. Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.

~ David Kinnaman

It takes just a little attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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.

~ Ethan Hawke

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You are strong, tempered like steel in the fire and by the blows of the hammer of life. Nothing will break you again, only make you stronger and more whole. Perfection is the pride of those who have not lived, who know not these things in their arrogance. They remain the same - raw and without form. The hammer never touches them, and they lie on the shelf, gathering dust, slowly tarnishing and fading and crumbling. the blows of the hammer in the fire refine us into bright shining glory for the roles we play in life - until we are one with the anvil, becoming immune to the hammer's little knocks, and smile at it.

~ Christina Engela

But the arrogance of old age can cloak itself in the authority of past accomplishments, which can serve to confirm the belief that one’s arrogance is justly held. It can shield a man from the realization that his beliefs have calcified, that he can no longer assess a situation accurately at first glance, that the world has changed around him and left him behind. Guarded from this knowledge, he remains content.

~ Dexter Palmer

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.

~ Gwenda Bond

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

~ Tom Clancy

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

~ Raheel Farooq

Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

~ Alexander Zalan

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you. Why?Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are you will be by far the most vulnerable. You must stay with Meg and Calvin. You must not go off on your own. Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.

~ Madeleine L'engle

She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.

~ Brom

Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.

~ Anonymous