786 Quotes About Arrogance

It takes just a little attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

But the arrogance of old age can cloak itself in the authority of past accomplishments, which can serve to confirm the belief that one’s arrogance is justly held. It can shield a man from the realization that his beliefs have calcified, that he can no longer assess a situation accurately at first glance, that the world has changed around him and left him behind. Guarded from this knowledge, he remains content.

By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.

We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth.

Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.