Top 1200 Pride And Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost his belief in himself and his own pride of goodness and his own pride of being and his own honor who is dangerous.

Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

People can overlook any shortcoming, but they will not tolerate arrogance.

It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed again. Upon this field met they their ruin. The soul and pride of Arendia doth reside within that fortress and the power of the Dark One may not prevail against it." "We've been here before, Mendorallen," Mister Wolf said sourly.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

The directors are selective in their choice of actors and sometimes, those choices smack of arrogance.

Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.

We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be associated with undoubted courage and unflinching integrity; at the same time there is no room for pride, self-sufficient pride, that rests solely upon its own capabilities, and refuses to look for the support and countenance of others.--MS 7:91 [MS is the Millenial Star]

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved.

I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.

In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black people.' But if I'm talking about a person, I'm going to say 'a Negro,' because I was taught to say that, and I don't see any reason to change it. I don't think that gives pride or anything else. I don't think you get pride by calling yourself this or that.

Arrogance can be deadly.” The corners of his mouth crept up. “But you didn’t hear me say that.

I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly; it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.

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.

Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that pride is a problem only for the lost. The most effective means the enemy has to keep believers from being full of the Spirit is to keep us full of ourselves. No wonder the Bible states and restates that God hates pride. It is the enemy of genuine ministry. It is the end of many homes.

That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

Actually, when I fought in PRIDE, we had the best fighters in the world. Back then, the UFC had a very serious and big crisis; they were going through some tough times trying to get top fighters. All the best fighters were in PRIDE.

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

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.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.

When you have the arrogance, the confidence and you can't cook, then you're only going to look stupid.

Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.