Top 1200 Pride And Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.

A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan’s disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam’s lapse was passion.

The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

Arrogance always destroys opportunity

My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

The taint of arrogance will I not know.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Arrogance cometh before reality.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

Arrogance can be deadly.

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

I pride myself on being a family man. I pride myself on being respectful and hardworking. That's just me.

A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

For me, I take a lot of pride in that, and we take a lot of pride in that, being able to play baseball.

I always pride myself on being an inside and outside player and pride myself on what I can do inside the paint.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

All pride is willing pride.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.

French arrogance is no longer in fashion in Italy.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

The arrogance of power must be undermined.

We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

The thing that gave me most pride about it was to see the smiles and the pride on my staff's faces, because a restaurant is a team thing, and for the whole team it's very much that touchy-feely thing that I could have helped them achieve such an award.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

It's not arrogance, it's just destiny.

We took pride in representing where we came from, took pride in being from small places, and places all around the world and being able to come together and make ourselves into a team, into a group of guys with one goal and get that done.