Top 1200 Pride And Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.

It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

What is forgiving? Forgiving is giving up all claim on one who had hurt you and letting go of the emotional consequences of the hurt. How can we do that? It's done at the price of beating back our pride. By nature we are selfish. Forgiving, by definition, is unselfish. Being hurt by another person wounds our pride. Pride stands in the way of forgiving. We cannot forgive without God's help. It might be possible for us to forgive something inconsequential without God's help; but in significant matters, we are unlikely to accomplish anything without God's involvement in the process.

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

A bit of arrogance is nice every now and then.

When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy.

Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

You still have your own pride, your own personal pride. You can still work hard and get around the pitch.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines When the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the Sophist's schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

I am shy. People misconstrue it as arrogance.

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

I never thought that I couldn't do what I set out to do. It wasn't from arrogance; it was from ignorance.

There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.

It's a fine line between self-assuredness and arrogance.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride in ignorance, or somehow use "elite" to mean "person who has taken the time to know" and then are eager to dismiss, say, striving, or the notion that improving one's self out of difficult conditions is a noble thing.

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

I think there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with the idea of racial identity and pride, yet racial pride in whites constitutes a grave evil.

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

¡Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who really matter. Love and hate are the same things, differently sifted through personal... pride, or what have you... personal pride or even just personal-ness.

Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.