Quotes about Arrogance
To serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.
— Isabel Allende
I want to transform rage into creative energy and guilt into a mocking acceptance of my faults; I want to sweep away arrogance and vanity.
— Isabel Allende
When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.
— Muhammad Ali
Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.
— Toni Morrison
rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."b
— Tony Evans
James 4:6: "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
— Kris Vallotton
He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
— George Bernard Shaw
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
— Emily Bronte
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
— John Maxwell
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
— Samuel Johnson
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
— John Calvin