Quotes about Arrogance

We're the only ones who know what death is all about. And the earth itself. Just let somebody try to muscle in on our work, and the earth will swallow him up like that, believe me. The earth is kind to us gravediggers. It doesn't complain, it lets itself be worked over. It accepts what we give it. It endures the assassin's arrogance and the victim's tears. It's open to everybody at any moment; the great conqueror is the earth, for it is the earth that raises the dead and feeds the living.

Proud men are the devil's pipes, and flatterers the musicians to blow these pipes.

When blindness and boldness, ignorance and arrogance, weakness and willfulness, meet together in men, it renders them odious to God, burdensome in society, dangerous in their counsels, disturbers of better purposes, intractable and incapable of better direction, miserable in the issue. Where Christ shows his gracious power in weakness, he does it by letting men understand themselves so far as to breed humility, and magnify God's love to such as they are.

And there is a proud kind of moderation likewise, when men will take upon them to censure both parties, as if they were wiser than both

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

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

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.