Humble Arrogant Quotes

#1. This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

Pema Chodron

#2. God does not choose the arrogant for his will. He chooses the humble. The least likely.

Morgan Rice

#3. Get rid of pride; it'll only ride you to the wrong side of life. May God's words guide your faith to abide in true humility. Kick off pride; embrace humility!

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. I think it's very humble to believe that there is no man, woman or child who should live in tyranny. That people who say, well, maybe Arabs just aren't ready for democracy or maybe Africans just are going to have corrupt governments, that seems to me arrogant.

Condoleezza Rice

#5. Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#6. Yet while Owllwin was arrogant, he was also humble enough to admit when he had made a mistake. Perhaps it was his sheer clumsiness that kept him so humble: the first time he spoke to Cricket was in the great dining hall, and he brought down six tables five minutes after.

Ash Gray

#7. Wise men may grow arrogant in their wisdom, but a maester must always remain humble.

George R R Martin

#8. Control is not humble; control is arrogant.

Bryant McGill

#9. Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

Ben Harper

#10. I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

Janis Ian

#11. I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.

Robert Winston

#12. One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. An arrogant man needs to humble himself as a boy, to be a gentleman.

Anthony Liccione

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

Amit Abraham

#15. Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.

John Piper

#16. Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Livy

#17. Love doesn't give a fuck about a piece of paper.

M. Mabie

#18. A humble prisoner is more righteous than an arrogant judge.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. Underdevelopment is a lack of maintenance.

Lucero Isaac

#20. If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason.

Shaquille O'Neal

#21. I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.

Carly Fiorina

#22. To assume you have it all figured out is a warning signal that you aren't humble enough to listen to God and to others. If you refuse to chisel away at arrogant attitudes, trouble lies ahead. You know very little if you claim to have all the answers.

Thomas A Kempis

#23. Leaders must be arrogant enough to believe they are worth following, but humble enough to know that others may have a better sense of the direction they should take.

Alan Murray

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

Anthony Liccione

#25. In this world we must help one another.

Jean De La Fontaine

#26. While sitting on the hopper, in a blissful state of belieflessness, the Universe sent me this silly pun: Arrogant know-it-alls actually know nothing,
while humble know-nothings seem to know everything...

Maximus Freeman

#27. You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

Talib Kweli

#28. The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. 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

#30. I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way.

Victoria Beckham

#31. Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

Zig Ziglar

#32. A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.

Jimmy Carter

#33. Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#34. But, even with all her differences, Mrs. Basil did not appear to Lenora to differ so very much from herself. She was truthful, honest and, for the rest, just a woman. And Lenora had a vague sort of idea that, to a man, all women are the same after three weeks of close intercourse.

Ford Madox Ford

#35. The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon