786 Quotes About Arrogance

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God's will that he began to admit that God's purposes might be different from his own. In short, he never forgot the men's contrast between the absolute goodness of God and the faltering goodness of all who are in the finite predicament.

She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.

The high road is littered with pot shots.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.