Top 100 Pride Arrogance Quotes
#1. You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.
Brian Weiss
#2. Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#3. To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power - pride, arrogance, control. I am not the frozen snow queen but a flesh and blood woman with perhaps too loving a heart, one easily hurt.
Michelle Cliff
#4. As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.
N. T. Wright
#5. To become a better you, never let the attitude of pride linger around your ambitions.
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. Put aside your pride,
Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#7. I won't pretend that I've arrived at humble orthodoxy. When I gain a bit of theological knowledge, I all too frequently get puffed up with pride. But I'll tell you what deflates my arrogance and self-righteousness faster than anything else: trying to live whatever truth I have.
Joshua Harris
#8. 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
#10. Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.
Raheel Farooq
#11. 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
#12. Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.
Kellie Elmore
#13. 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
#14. No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.
Criss Jami
#15. Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
Paul David Tripp
#16. Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
Criss Jami
#17. Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.
Criss Jami
#18. There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.
Francis S. Collins
#19. By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.
Graham Speechley
#20. 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
#21. You need to think of your quest for wisdom as a hunger that will never be satiated. The mere thought that you've arrived will spawn pride and arrogance.
Mark Miller
#22. It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
William Shakespeare
#23. At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#24. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.
Shannon L. Alder
#25. 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
#26. Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.
Criss Jami
#27. It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.
Criss Jami
#28. I think, tribalism is a mental prison ... and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one's ability to abandon it.
Duop Chak Wuol
#29. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.
Criss Jami
#31. You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
Criss Jami
#32. I thought of this, tell me whether it is true or false; you do not know something, you cannot know everything and you can miss anything
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
Criss Jami
#34. Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#35. His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#36. She'd often wished to chip away a bit of his arrogance, but she couldn't bear the idea of seeing Kaz stripped of his pride.
Leigh Bardugo
#37. A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said ... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.
Stephen King
#38. Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.
Will Davis Jr.
#39. This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.
Augustine Of Hippo
#40. To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
Amy Tan
#42. Pride is the mother of arrogance.
Toba Beta
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. One of the most disruptive forces in the Church is arrogance. It is natural for people to bring their pride to Church, and try to prove their own greatness to others. This is an urge we need to constantly be fighting
Dan Schilling
#46. Close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere
Paulo Coelho
#48. whilst you are a youth, think about the aged; whilst you are an aged, think about the youth
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#49. 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.
David Kinnaman
#50. Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.
Madeleine L'Engle
#51. In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.
Dada Bhagwan
#52. There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
Pope Francis
#53. He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult; and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.
Anonymous
#54. Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#55. How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.
Tom Clancy
#57. 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
#60. You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.
Criss Jami
#62. The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride.
T.A. Cline
#63. Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#64. Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
Luc De Clapiers
#65. The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.
Criss Jami
#66. Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.
Stella Payton
#67. The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
Mark Twain
#68. If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealousy, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.
Russell Brand
#69. Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
Blaise Pascal
#70. 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
#71. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#73. It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes.
Reshad Feild
#74. As we neared the watering hole, I saw lions sprawled at the base of the acacia tree, relaxing in the shade. Many, many lions. If a group of lions is normally called a pride, then this was, at the very least, an overconfidence. Possibly an arrogance.
Dixie Lyle
#75. Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.
Gwenda Bond
#76. Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.
Anonymous
#77. There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
John C. Maxwell
#78. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
Criss Jami
#79. English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#80. Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.
Toba Beta
#81. What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
Theodore Bikel
#82. Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.
Criss Jami
#83. He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#84. As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.
Dan Jones
#85. Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
Edmund Burke
#86. The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.
Criss Jami
#87. 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
#88. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
Criss Jami
#89. I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people that do things selfishly, out of arrogance, pride, lust, greed. And all have fallen short. That doesn't mean some we're definitely a part of that inclusive all.
Jon Foreman
#90. My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day.
Patrick Rothfuss
#91. Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life
Paulo Coelho
#92. At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#93. Never mistake arrogance for intellect.
D.B. Harrop
#94. I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.
Christopher Hitchens
#95. The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
#96. I just wanted the hatred inside of him - the pride, the anger, the arrogance - to finally go away.
J.M. Darhower
#98. She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.
Brom
#99. It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.
Criss Jami
#100. This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)
Jimmy Carter
