786 Quotes About Arrogance

Someone asked me: "Why do you always need to be right?” I asked back for an example of a situation where I was likely wrong but this person became silent. And I had to conclude she had none. Because I was indeed always right, not by need, but as a fact she couldn’t accept.

Some people are so arrogant that they remain arrogant even when they are on top of a mountain or in the middle of an ocean.

Self-inflation and conceit are generally the external signs of inner emptiness and self-doubt; a show of pride is one of the most common covers for anxiety.

Much self-condemnation is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark "One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man.

In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.

Intellect that takes away your humility isn't worth a penny.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

Wasting time is living in self glorification instead of glorifying God as God is time