Arrogance Quotes

• It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free.

  

  George Lee Butler
  • Impossible
  • States
  • Nations

• To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Thinking
  • Team
  • Running

• ... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Religion
  • Arrogance

• [F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Kind
  • Guilty
  • Stranger

• It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Writing
  • Trade
  • Journalism

• Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Giving
  • Feelings
  • Pride

• It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Kings
  • Arrogance

• Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

  

  Morley Safer
  • Common
  • Currency
  • Arrogance

• Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.

  

  Ziauddin Sardar
  • Risk
  • Ignorance
  • Causes

• Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Inspire
  • Arrogance

• The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Reputation
  • Authenticity
  • Arrogant

• If you want to be treated like a queen then start acting like one. No arrogance or games. Be humble, graceful, kind & loving.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Games
  • Treated
  • Arrogance

• Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.

  

  Dave Ulrich
  • People
  • Leader
  • Dedication

• Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

  

  Eric Shinseki
  • Experience
  • Leadership
  • Command

• Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Voice
  • Arrogance
  • Gestures

• From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Reason
  • Meat
  • Imaginations

• Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other institutions whose decisions he wants to control and override? But he can talk glibly about growing the economy. Arrogance is no substitute for experience. That is why the country is in the mess it is in now.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Country
  • Growing
  • Decision

• I think that enjoying the fruits of one's labor is very different than arrogance. And when I was younger, I didn't know the difference. I thought that if you were gracious, that meant that you somehow were getting ahead of yourself. And I felt self-deprecation kept you balanced.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy

• The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

  

  Stephen Jay Gould
  • Human
  • Cosmos
  • Scientific Revolution

• Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

  

  Eric A. Meyer
  • Pretend
  • Arrogance
  • Encourage

• Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Worry
  • Stress
  • Arrogance

• Mondrian.. .The constructivists?.. .They had certainties. They wanted a stable basis to work on, but I’m afraid that that was enormous arrogance on their part. Nothing is stable and no certainties are possible.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Work
  • Arrogance
  • Constructivism

• It's not arrogance, it's just destiny.

  

  Randy Orton
  • Arrogance

• The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Heaven
  • Christians
  • Arrogance

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