Top 93 Humility Arrogance Quotes
#1. Listening is central to the development of humility. Arrogance speaks. Humility listens.
Brad Lomenick
#2. Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.
Criss Jami
#3. Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.
Tariq Ramadan
#4. They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.
Stephen L. Carter
#5. The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.
David Halberstam
#6. Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#7. Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
Joe Klein
#8. When I begin praying Christ into someone's life, God often permits suffering in that person's life. If Satan's basic game plan is pride, seeking to draw us into his life of arrogance, then God's basic game plan is humility, drawing us into the life of his Son.
Paul E. Miller
#9. The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.
Liu Xia
#10. He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.
V.S. Ramachandran
#11. By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.
Graham Speechley
#12. Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
Walter Isaacson
#13. There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil: it is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, jealousy, resentment, lies. The other is good: it is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed. - Cherokee proverb Spanning
Angela Stevens
#14. There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.
Criss Jami
#15. Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed.
Abhijit Naskar
#16. Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.
Renford Reese
#17. It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.
Michael Johnson
#18. The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.
Criss Jami
#19. A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
George Eliot
#20. Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.
Criss Jami
#21. After Galileo, Einstein and even Freud, we try to hang onto a pathetic sort of significance on this planet and in this universe, that we are in some way more special than anything else. Our supreme arrogance that in some way the world was created for us has neither scientific nor spiritual reality.
David Brandon
#22. Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#24. Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.
Robert A. Heinlein
#26. Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.
Sam Owen
#27. It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.
Criss Jami
#28. Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.
Jay Woodman
#29. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
T. S. Eliot
#30. Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord.
Radhanath Swami
#31. The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.
Dean Koontz
#32. One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.
A. J. Jacobs
#33. You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
Criss Jami
#34. Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant.
Arun Gandhi
#35. Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
Beryl Markham
#36. His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#37. Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.
Criss Jami
#38. Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people ... For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.
John J. Gilligan
#39. For I am aware what ability is requisite to persuade the proud how great is the virtue of humility, which raises us, not by a quite human arrogance, but by a divine grace, above all earthly dignities that totter on this shifting scene.
Augustine Of Hippo
#40. Only God is in a position to look down upon someone.
Habeeb Akande
#41. Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.
Elton Trueblood
#42. One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.
Criss Jami
#43. Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
David Halberstam
#44. Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Radhanath Swami
#45. Insecurity was never humility; just as arrogance was never success.
Shannon L. Alder
#46. His core business still is self-promotion.
Joe Nocera
#47. I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals. (10)
Jane Austen
#48. Richard Nixon's conversation was loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching his vacation slides.
Rick Perlstein
#49. The exegetical foundations would appear to be weak, and one shouldn't build huge theological edifices, no matter how splendid or consistent, on weak foundations.
Ben Witherington III
#50. Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!
C. JoyBell C.
#51. Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world.
J 'son M. Lee
#52. If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.
Helen Van Slyke
#54. Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
Robert Macfarlane
#55. If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.
Margaret Atwood
#57. The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
Criss Jami
#58. Humility is by definition a starting point - and it sends you off on a journey from there. The arrogance of certainty is both a starting point and an ending point - no journeys needed.
Tim Urban
#59. Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.
Stella Payton
#61. An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
Criss Jami
#62. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#63. When your sense of respect for others..
Your humility despite a chance at arrogance..
is MISCONSTRUED, MISUNDERSTOOD AND JUDGED..
Put a stop , pull the brakes..Some people do not deserve it!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#65. He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.
Stephen L. Carter
#66. Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers
Harold Holzer
#67. It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.
Ellis Peters
#68. I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.
John Taliaferro
#70. 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
#71. Humility, meekness, magnanimity, and love to preserve unity! These, these are the roads, the true roads of the Church. Let us listen to this again. Humility against vanity, against arrogance - humility, meekness, magnanimity, and love preserve unity.
Pope Francis
#72. Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.
Alan Cohen
#73. Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton
Harold Holzer
#74. As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.
Dan Jones
#75. Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.
Marco Pierre White
#76. Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#77. When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.
Criss Jami
#78. I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.
Brian Spellman
#79. 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
#80. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
Criss Jami
#81. Early in my career ... I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility ... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#82. I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth'
or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.
Rachel Carson
#83. The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.
Criss Jami
#84. Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong.
Seth Klarman
#85. I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.
Madeleine L'Engle
#86. All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.
Habeeb Akande
#87. But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.
Stephen Mitchell
#88. I think flexibility, humility, and multilingualism should take the place of sticklerism, arrogance, and nationalism when we think about language. I
Robert Lane Greene
#89. Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.
Alan Cohen
#90. Never mistake arrogance for intellect.
D.B. Harrop
#91. The opposite of humility is arrogance
the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.
John Templeton
#92. The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.
Leo Tolstoy
