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You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

Accepting help shames only the arrogant.

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.

A good deed is not a good deed if you brag about it

After all, the entire process of "getting along" is nothing more than a cycle of deception. You're lying to yourself and others. They acknowledge that they're being deceived, and you acknowledge that they're deceiving you [. . .] In the end, it's nothing more than falsehood, suspicion, and deceit.

A gentleman by definition is a man who makes everyone around him feel comfortable. Arrogance who only thinks of himself without considering the needs of others is the opposite of a gentleman. They can both be wealthy, they don't have to be, but they cannot both be gentlemen.

...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it - and not by spending as he please but by knowing how to spend it well. To the poor gentleman there is no other way of showing that he is a gentleman than by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered and helpful; not haughty, arrogant or censorious, but above all by being charitable...and no one who sees him adorned with the virtues I have mentioned, will fail to recognize and judge him, though he know him not, to be of good stock.

A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.

A humble man rises to great heights and an arrogant man falls deep into the pit he tries to dig for others.

All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.

All of those plans had been destroyed by the arrogant charity of a King.

Alleen mensen die zichzelf veel te belangrijk vinden denken dat ze overal gemist zullen worden.

A loner, by nature, burdens no one with their existence. By avoiding entanglements with others, they cause no harm. We are extremely ecologically friendly, clean, and environmentally aware creatures.

A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator.

A man told me that my thoughts are opinions, so I asked back if he knows the difference between facts and opinions. He couldn’t differentiate them. And I had to conclude I was talking with an arrogant lunatic. He did admit to be arrogant, but the conversation was over before I could prove him lunatic as well.

Ambition is disfigured into arrogance when it becomes unmoored from self-awareness, from a realistic assessment of one's competences.

An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

Anymals do not exist to satisfy our desires and pleasures.

Animals are forever true to their God-given natures, communicating well enough with canny precision in languages we are perhaps too arrogant to understand.

Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong confidence and a bold spirit that makes you a lion of God. The Creator does not want you to suffer, yet we are being conditioned by society to accept suffering, weak and passive dispositions under the belief that such conditions are favorable by God. Weakness is not a virtue praised by God. How could he desire for you to be weak if he tells us to stand by our conscience? Doing so requires strength. However, there is a difference between arrogance when inflating your ego, and confidence when one truly gets closer to God. One feels large, while the other feels small. Why? Because a man of wisdom understands that he is just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms, and that in the end — we are all connected. And did you not know that the smaller a creature is, the bolder its spirit?

Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

Arrogance based on relentless denial of faults eventually makes a person weary.

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.

Arrogance is false confidence. It is born from insecurity. Haider pretends to be unafraid. He pretends to be crueler than he is. He lies easily. Than makes him unpredictable and, in som ways, a more dangerous opponent. But the majority of the time his actions are inspired by fear. And that makes him weak.

arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom

Arrogance is the last thing to die

Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.

Arrogant people beat each other.

Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle.

Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price. Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.

Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in pride. Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.

Arrogance likes to appear humble in public.

Arroganz ist die Karikatur des Stolzes.

Arrogance combined with stubbornness is a ticking bomb.

Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-respect. We all see the world through the prism of our identity. If our self-worth is low, it affects everything we do. The point of life is to contribute to others, but without a certain self-regard, it is sometimes difficult to make breakfast.

Arrogance is shown in one's respect to the truth.

Arrogance is the worst teacher.

Arrogance makes you stronger from outside, but even more weaker from inside.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

Arrogance is full with perception of perfection, while maturity always has room for understanding and improvement.

Arrogance is nothing but Stupidity with an ego.

Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else, Confidence is knowing no one is above you.

Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you'll learn more.

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.

Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.