Arrogant Quotes

• The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Being Strong, Business

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 24, 2016

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

  Bono

  Roots, Arrogance, Assumption

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• President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Taken, Thinking, Blue

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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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• Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, May, Weak

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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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• We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Stupid, Foolish, Young

  "'The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 29, 2005.

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• Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.

  Carl Sagan

  Years, Survival, Answers

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• People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Tired, Thinking, Government

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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, Arrogance

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

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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, Arrogance, Aggressive

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

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• A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

  Paul Wellstone

  People, Doe, Politics

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.209, Random House

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• I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

  Bram Cohen

  Knows, I Can

  "The Bittorrent Effect" by Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. January 1, 2005.

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• When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Thinking, Wrath

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• Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

  Louise Slaughter

  Honesty, Integrity, Government

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

  Chris Lowe

  Stupid, Long, Ego

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Kindness, Generosity

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Fear Nothing”, p.368, Hachette UK

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• He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

  Linda McCartney

  Writing, Mad, Tunes

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• We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Possibility, Said

  "Interview with the President of South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki, on SABC2 following his State of the Nation Address 2005". SABC2 Interview, www.gov.za. 13 February 2005.

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• To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

  George Santayana

  Blood, History, Delight

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.51, MIT Press

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• I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

  Hugh Leonard

  People, Idiot, Clear

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• I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Would Be, Form, Humans

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• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Class, Giving

  Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

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• They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

  Arthur Boyd

  Used, Used To Be, Nationalistic

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• I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

  Mike Tyson

  Love, Sports, People

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