Top 759 Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.
Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
The directors are selective in their choice of actors and sometimes, those choices smack of arrogance.
The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.
When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.
I am a mum - I want to give my kids confidence, but limit it because no one wants arrogance.
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.
A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved.
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.
Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.
Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?
In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.
A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.
In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.
You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.
Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.
In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.
Arrogance can be deadly.” The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that.
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school.
Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
If I don't get the right vibes from a person, I will not speak to him or her and I guess that comes across as arrogance.
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.
Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.
There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.
America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.
There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".
The U.S.A. have a 'football arrogance,' which means winning is in their DNA - nothing else is good enough.
If you yearn for holy felicity,
shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.
Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.
That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that.
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.
The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
