Quotes about Arrogance

Most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.

I'm tired of self-important mentalities.

It is impudence to say that Woman was made out of Man's body, she continued, when every man is born of woman. What impudence men have, what arrogance!

But she did not suffer so much, because she despised the triviality of these other people.

We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

No one but an aviator has a right to look down on others.

Self-Righteousness

Each thinks he or she is more righteous than the other. Each

Self-righteousness is your own personal defense attorney.

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

The desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life.

Now, as St. Augustine saw long ago, the opposite of love is pride. Love eliminates pride because its will for the good of the other nullifies our arrogant presumption that we should get our way. We are concerned for the good of others and assured that our good is taken care of without self-will. Thus pride and fear and their dreadful offspring no longer rule our life as love becomes completed in us.