Arrogance Quotes - Page 2

Arrogance always destroys opportunity

America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.

With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

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.

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.