Top 1200 Pride And Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.

Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other institutions whose decisions he wants to control and override? But he can talk glibly about growing the economy. Arrogance is no substitute for experience. That is why the country is in the mess it is in now.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

I'm kind of a purist and I actually just want to be a good player, with that said though... I probably should get a little more involved in that as that's what people are doing and making great songs out of their computer so it's kind of like, at what point does purist become arrogance?

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display, notwithstanding the growing tide of pornography and permissiveness, notwithstanding occasional corruption in public office and betrayal of sacred trust-I marvel at the miracle of America.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

I want to live my life moving forward with integrity and pride.

In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the servility of the weak, low rapacity, ephemeral pleasure purchased by great effort, death preceded by long suffering, all belong to the animals as they do to men.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

'Fringe' has been a point of pride. I share the passion for the show that the fans have.

I believe that I'm one of the best defenders in this league; I take a lot of pride in that.

One of the reasons people sell out so quickly is because even the talented think they're frauds. It's a culture that doesn't encourage people to believe in the work they do. You're told to second-guess yourself all the time. That's where I think a little hostility and arrogance can save you. And I've never been lacking for either.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

There are times this stony heart of mine feels a burst of British pride.

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

It [boxing] helps my hand-eye coordination, my stamina, my footwork, and it gives me that competitive edge and drive. And in the ring it's mano-a-mano. So it helps you build that arrogance, that cockiness, that confidence in yourself that the man that stands in front of you isn't going to beat you, and that translates to the court.

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

I want to do something that I'm proud of and that I can look back on with pride of accomplishment.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

I try to take a lot of pride in what I can do in terms of knowing the defense.

I feel like I take a lot of pride in the patience that I play with.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

My mother always told me to take pride in my appearance.

I think the joy, the satisfaction and the pride of representing Brazil is a lot.

I think it's a personal pride to hear everyone talking about me.

It's great finding a comic book character that doesn't care about following traditional comic book rules by breaking the fourth wall and being explicit about everything. This gives Deadpool the arrogance which you just have to love.

The optimist in me sees corporations in the present era as more open to change than they were in the 1990s. Certainly, because of the relatively poor performance of many corporations in the early part of millennial , there seems to be less arrogance in executive suites, and that usually translates to a willingness to consider alternatives.

I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.

You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.

The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your pride to really go after what you want.

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

I take a great deal of pride in pitching deep into ballgames.

Weakness leaves, pride comes in. Confidence grows. Successful life.

I love competing against the best and I take a lot of pride in it.

If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

I take great pride in being able to work with anybody.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

The huge arrogance of the companies developing GMO crops and their determination to destroy the line of accountability which links the developer to the product is breath-taking. When something goes wrong, as it inevitably will, there will be a great benefit to those who have taken a stance against genetically modified organisms.

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

Leading by example is something I've always tried to pride myself on.

It's our country. I have a lot of pride in it and the flag and what that's about and all the people who fought for it.