Quotes about Arrogance

Snobbery works in both directions—if you're rich, thinking you're better than those who aren't is as equally lame as being broke and thinking you're better than those who are rich.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'.

REST.—If a man should be able to assent to this doctrine as he ought, that we are all sprung from God in an especial manner, and that God is the father both of men and of gods, I suppose that he would never have any ignoble or mean thoughts about himself. But if Cæsar (the emperor) should adopt you, no one could endure your arrogance; and if you know that you are the son of Zeus, will you not be elated?

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Lord, forgive me for the arrogance that sees interruptions to my plans as alien invasions. Forgive me for constantly trying to do more than you intend with my life. Help me to be like John the Baptist, embracing my losses and respecting my limits. In Jesus' name, amen.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

We've been conditioned to associate governing with self-promoting arrogance, corruption, inequality, and inefficiency. But

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).

Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches.

To the young woman I say, This is the moment in your life when he who is wooing you will be at his kindest. And if you do not see kindness in the man you are dating, beware! For the partnership you are looking for will be nourished and nurtured only on the basis of a love that is not arrogant or prideful, but kind.