Quotes About Arrogance And Ego

#1. Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

Kellie Elmore

#2. The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

Criss Jami

#3. 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

#4. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.

Paul Watson

#6. 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

#7. Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

Walter Isaacson

#9. 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

#10. No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

Criss Jami

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

Stephen L. Carter

#14. Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas

Tony Dovale

#15. Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

David Cone

#16. 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

#17. If you do not believe that listening to the best people in the business telling you what they know will help you succeed, then you have allowed your ego and arrogance to get the best of you.

Andy Albright

#18. Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#19. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

Criss Jami

#20. 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

#21. 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.

Iyanla Vanzant

#22. Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Criss Jami

#24. 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

#25. The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Criss Jami

#26. There is a difference between Confidence and Arrogance..
Both look alike but stem from two very different sources..
One comes from Self Belief and the other comes from Ego..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#27. You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Criss Jami

#28. To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

George Clooney

#30. Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#31. Avoid any Dom with a large ego. Do not mistake arrogance for confidence.

Red Phoenix

#32. Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Chris Lowe

#33. I want people to hear the honesty in my singing, and that I'm not hiding behind anything. It's raw. It's not for any arrogance or ego. It's just pure feelings.

Tom Odell

#34. Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Richard Rohr

#35. I often think myself to be so ingenious that I don't even realize that my own plans may actually be my own undoing. Therefore, I might be wise to realize that God's plans undo what I've done that's undoing me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#36. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

Criss Jami

#37. The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

Criss Jami

#38. Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Criss Jami

#39. Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

Craig D. Lounsbrough