Quotes about Arrogance
Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
— Francis Chan
Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines—as well as upon works!
— John Newton
Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.
— John Ortberg
Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.
— Gordon Hinckley
He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
— Samuel Johnson
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
— St. Augustine
Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
— CS Lewis
Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.
— AW Tozer
No man is great if he thinks he is.
— Will Rogers
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
— John Calvin
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
— Mark Twain