Arrogance Quotes

• close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, I Hate You

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• The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Bullying, Conceited

  Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.251, The Floating Press

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• Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

  Desmond Tutu

  Feelings, Insecurity, Flip

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• Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.

  Bion of Smyrna

  Obstruction

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• What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Shame, Ends

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• None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Unjust, Opinion, Judgment

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.366, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.

  Vitor Belfort

  Needs, Advertising, Speak

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• The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

  Jim Rohn

  Ignorance, Conceited, Kind

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 20, 2017

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• An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Arrogant Person, Perfect, Becoming

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy (p. 110), 1909.

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• Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Fear, Islamic, Pride

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 72,

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• Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Believe, People, Support

  Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Success Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.70, Random House

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• When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

  David Hume

  Men, Stupidity, Arrogant

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• Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

  Sun Tzu

  Encouragement, War, Inferiority

  "The Art of War". Chapter I: Detail Assessment and Planning. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Vanity, Riches

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.406, Courier Corporation

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• Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

  Wes Fesler

  Ignorant, Arrogant, Moments

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  No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Arrogant, Aggressive

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Divorce, People, Appearance

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

  Marya Mannes

  Successful, Use, Timing

  Marya Mannes (1971). “Out of my time”

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

  Bob Lewis

  Covering, Excuse, Hiding

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  People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  Isaac Asimov

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" edited by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 299), 2004.

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• Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as our faults with neutrality, we can start to appreciate ourselves as we would a dear friend and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect. To embrace the journey towards our full potential we need to become our own loving teacher and coach. Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings we develop true regard for ourselves and our life will become sacred.

  Rajneesh

  Teacher, Healing, Journey

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  When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

  David Hume

  Humility, Passion, Men

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• For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

  Sophocles

  Hate, Tongue, Bragging

  Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

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