Top 1200 Pride And Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.

We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up there [in the noose] it does give you pause but I'm no stranger to degradation and dehumanization. I felt a lot of pride to be a part of showing something like this because a lot of people don't know and haven't been exposed to these types of historical experiences until they see it depicted on our show [Underground].

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

What am I missing to be the best in the world? Honestly, nothing in terms of quality, just consistency, and that's not arrogance.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

I am a mum - I want to give my kids confidence, but limit it because no one wants arrogance.

The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

The U.S.A. have a 'football arrogance,' which means winning is in their DNA - nothing else is good enough.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

For me as a woman pride is not really sin, but rather something that I still have to learn. The male conception of the person who rebels against God by affirming himself, by acting proudly, arrogantly, and without constraints, is not a woman's concern. Rather, we women are in danger of not developing any pride, of never becoming independent, of constantly remaining within too narrow boundaries.

Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

If I don't get the right vibes from a person, I will not speak to him or her and I guess that comes across as arrogance.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to fail) is itself a kind of pride. Feeling depressed that I am worse than others is as much an act of pride as feeling myself better. Both are acts of self-concern.

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

You've got to appeal to the pride in people. When a woman is flabby and soft, she's unattractive. When you married a beautiful girl and all of a sudden you start seeing her tits down and her breath stinks and she's not clean anymore and has no pride in herself, you can't love her. You may bullshit yourself, but you can't. Energy makes people beautiful. That's what charisma is.

I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.

America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.

I take offence if I'm called arrogant, because I've been brought up in a family that does not endorse arrogance.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

DMK's arrogance of being in power at the Centre will be put an end to by AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.