Top 824 Arrogant Quotes & Sayings

If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us.

The whole life of Demosthenes... leaves the impression of a melancholy state of things, and of the brazen insolence of wickedness. A particularly striking idea of how things really were in Greece can be obtained from one feature of life - the sons who turned out badly.... the sons of gifted but arrogant fathers turned out merely arrogant, the grandsons hopeless; it is respect alone that sustains families and gives them traditions.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

In England, we're arrogant to everything else.

The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a peer, not a local superior, not even the pope himself. They know - and that is the end of the matter. Filled as they are with their own views, the arrogant lack the capacity to see another view.

If you request for a little time to fulfill a commitment, you're accused of being arrogant. I repeat, I've achieved nothing to be arrogant about.

I have always been an arrogant man.

Showrunning is an arrogant job. You have to be arrogant and hold yourself strong in order for people to hear you. Confidence partners with arrogance. The only person you have to trust is yourself. The only instinct you can trust is your own.

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

I'm not cocky. I'm not arrogant. I know my value.

I don't think I've become arrogant. I'm pretty much the same person. I think the world has changed. I think I'm pretty consistent. Because you stick to what you believe does not make you arrogant.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.

Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant

The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial.

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

People think I am arrogant, I don't think so. I cannot be arrogant at all... I am basically a lower middle class person by heart.

I certainly had an arrogant streak. And I certainly was defensive in certain cases. Maybe I'm still arrogant, but I try not to be.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

Ain't got no comparison and I ain't being arrogant.

A lot of elders don't really like me in music because they just think I'm a little cheeky prick and I'm arrogant. I'm definitely cheeky, I'm definitely a prick and I'm definitely arrogant.

Some people were arrogant jerks when they made $50,000 and some are arrogant jerks making $25 million. People are people, but 95 percent of NFL players are great guys.

I'm not arrogant but I'm confident enough to know what I can do and what I can't do. And I'm fine with what I can't.

Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

You need to balance arrogance and humilitywhen you buy anything, it's an arrogant act. You are saying the markets are gyrating and somebody wants to sell this to me and I know more than everybody else so I am going to stand here and buy it. I am going to pay an 1/8th more than the next guy wants to pay and buy it. That's arrogant. And you need the humility to say 'but I might be wrong.' And you have to do that on everything

John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!

I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.

It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

The thing with me is that I'm quite arrogant.

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.

What is more arrogant than honesty?

I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.

It's okay to be confident, but not arrogant.

If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.

I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant

Canadians always make jokes about the arrogant American, but the longer I'm here, the more I realize, "Oh, it isn't that they're arrogant, it's just the way that their country is set up you really have to protect yourself and you really have to look after yourself, and with that comes the mentality of 'I'm doing my thing here, if you don't like it, get over it.'"

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

Can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross?

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!

I was never arrogant.

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.

Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.

I don't believe in talking about my work. I let it speak for itself. I'd rather make money than just talk about my business. People think that because I don't talk much to the media, I am arrogant. I am not arrogant, but I do have an attitude.

I was taught to be respectful and humble as a boy, and especially not arrogant.

I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not unconditional, it is just a hypothesis," and so on. It really is a most arrogant position. I think that the only way to be honest and expose yourself to criticism is to state clearly and dogmatically where you are. You must take the risk and have a position.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.