65 Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana about arrogance
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The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.
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Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.
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Admitting that their child is, or can be, more educated than them is the closest most parents are willing to get to admitting that their child is, or can be, smarter or wiser than them.
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Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.
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A mere compliment has been the seed of some people’s downfall.
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For our success to happen, millions of billions of things, the vast majority of which were neither in our control nor in our awareness, needed not only to happen but also to happen how, when, where, and—in some cases—for how long, they have happened; and to happen to the things and the people to whom they have happened.
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Those who know the least want to be heard the most.
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What is unfair is, not life, but our demanding—as microscopic a part of life and as unnecessary to life as we are—that life happen as per our desires, which are always selfish … and almost always petty.
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Believing in God makes one humble … and arrogant: those who do give their actions and their abilities way less credit than they really deserve, and are inevitably left with the unshakable belief that they are way more important to life than they actually are.
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