Best 273 quotes in «arrogant quotes» category

We often betray our arrogance or immaturity by asserting that we will never do something bad that we are capable of doing.

When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.

When you fight with God, your warring against your pride.

When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul's High School, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise. I learnt to take the course of my life, not by violence but rather with intelligence.

Who wants to share knowledge and make contributions to what is shared by another, is humble. On the other hand, who only wants to leave in evidence to another, correcting and asking what already knows, trying to erroneously demonstrate all the knowledge that appears to possess, is simply a haughty one.

You can be better or even the best and still not be good.

Why don't you wear those tiny shorts when you run, like they do in the movies?" His voice was low and sexy, and he knew it. "Because I'm not in a movie. I know it's confusing, since you obviously live 'The Saxon Show' day and night, but some of us want to live a boring, old, normal high school life, you know?

WORSHIP LEADERSHIP. Mere talents does not give glory to God but a humble heart.

You can be the most talented, the most intelligent or the most successful man in the world, but if you're not a modest person, then you can never get rid of being a very repulsive person!

You can be dead sure and still be dead wrong.

You're so arrogant, you're almost macho.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

You’re not even boasting about it.” “Should I?” “You can’t. You’re too arrogant to boast.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field.

America can no longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. We can no longer exempt ourselves from the global family of concern.

Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude!

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

Are you kidding? He's arrogant, sarcastic, likes to intimidate people, and—oh." Okay. Maybe she had a point.

And one more thing I want to be clear about - I know who I am. I am just a very thin layer of charming with some funny sprinkles wrapped around a huge creamy center of raging arrogant a-hole. I got it.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!

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.

Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.

As far as the persona, I'm true to myself. Not because I'm arrogant, but I'm true to myself because I believe that you have to stand for something. When you start sacrificing that, even if it's just a line in a song or something you say on the mic at a show, or the way you treat someone when you see them out in public, that all reflects on who you are.

Being an arrogant braggart just doesn’t work for me. (Devyn) You should try it. It really does grow on you, trust me. (Adron)

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

[Derek] Shackleton was a man who - it's probably arrogant to say it - but he was a little bit like me. He undertook incredible dangers and carried on over the sea and over the ice and all the rest of it. He was a remarkable man.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

Canadians always make jokes about the arrogant American, but the longer I'm here, the more I realize, "Oh, it isn't that they're arrogant, it's just the way that their country is set up you really have to protect yourself and you really have to look after yourself, and with that comes the mentality of 'I'm doing my thing here, if you don't like it, get over it.'

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.