Quotes About Arrogant People

#1. Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

Sam Donaldson

#2. I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility ... There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

Harry A. Blackmun

#3. Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

Lewis B. Smedes

#4. We hear strong opinions from arrogant people all day long. We need to cleanse our minds by reminding each other of God's actual words.

Francis Chan

#5. We need arrogant people who like showing off.
They can cover us from bullets in the line of fire.

Toba Beta

#6. I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.

Timberlake Wertenbaker

#7. Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's.

David Baldacci

#8. I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.

Donald Miller

#9. I can be an arrogant people If I have to,
or when the situation demands me to act so.
It is one way for me to make arrogance useful.
So if I know not people well, I don't judge them.

Toba Beta

#10. We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.

William Henry Willimon

#11. Fat people have shit in their stomach; arrogant people have it in their brain. Health and Success aren't Lottery Games.

Daniel Marques

#12. What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.

Selena

#13. Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?
Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version.

Toba Beta

#14. Arrogant people beat each other.

Toba Beta

#15. If you have read this far, arrogance is not one of your problems. Arrogant people rarely read or listen to experts. Why should they? They are the center of the universe.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#16. The cost for the recipient of God's grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.

Dan B. Allender

#17. Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.

Stephen Jay Gould

#18. It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

Brian Eno

#19. I don't mind rude people. I want people that I can make money with, so if their executional abilities are good, and they're arrogant and rude, I don't care.

Kevin O'Leary

#20. The people of Waziristan are so innocent they seem stupid and so straight forward the seem arrogant

Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur

#21. All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

Simon Hoggart

#22. There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#23. I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn't want to become a writer - it just happened.

Haruki Murakami

#24. I don't believe in talking about my work. I let it speak for itself. I'd rather make money than just talk about my business. People think that because I don't talk much to the media, I am arrogant. I am not arrogant, but I do have an attitude.

Shailender Singh

#25. I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

Bjork

#26. I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#27. I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable

Jeffrey Zaslow

#28. Earlier today Martha Stewart issued a statement saying 'I am innocent and will fight to clear my name.' Yeah, Martha then said 'I look forward to the day when people stop thinking I am guilty and get back to thinking I am cold and arrogant.'

Conan O'Brien

#29. People do complain about the way I act on stage ... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.

Bo Burnham

#30. I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

Harry Belafonte

#31. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Alice Lowe

#32. I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

Jeremy Irvine

#33. I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.

Ranbir Kapoor

#34. ...the people arrogant enough to use the words 'I understand' are the ones who can't possibly understand.

David Arnold

#35. I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

Paulo Coelho

#36. People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.

Kevin Rowland

#37. I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible.

Jeff Miller

#38. Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

Gudjon Bergmann

#39. are for peace. But so long as U.S. imperialism refuses to give up its arrogant and unreasonable demands and its scheme to extend aggression, the only course for the Chinese people is to remain determined to go on fighting side by side with the Korean people. Not

Mao Zedong

#40. I'm one of the lucky people that, my job is my passion, is my hobby. I hope this doesn't sound arrogant: I truly feel that this is what I'm meant to do, to swim and to talk about protecting the environment, my two passions.

Lewis Pugh

#41. I don't want to sound arrogant and say that I know everything about directing and I've got it cracked, but it was just all in all a joyous experience. To me, the key to directing, to be honest, is just surround yourself with brilliant people and let them do their thing

Dan Mazer

#42. People accuse me of being arrogant all the time.I'm not arrogant , i'm focused

Russell Crowe

#43. People were tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers; and they were angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who thought all of mankind's problems could be solved by throwing the taxpayers' dollars at them.

Ronald Reagan

#44. He turned then and those blue eyes met hers from across the sea of people. Her stomach bottomed out. Damn it. She couldn't be attracted to the arrogant ass.
Somehow repeating herself wasn't helping.

Billi Jean

#45. Its an arrogant conceit of humans to think that they can "give" justice in whatever capacity. Karma would boomerang sooner or later and you are not required to meddle with it. Laws don't ensure justice but ensures fear of punishment in men much like religion instills fear of God.

Nikhil Sharda

#46. Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

Carly Fiorina

#47. A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Paul Wellstone

#48. And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts ... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.

Billy Joel

#49. The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant.

John Banville

#50. I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a music fan. I do want to hear obscure songs, but like most people, I want to hear the hits, so we always play them.

Art Alexakis

#51. I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

Mike Tyson

#52. I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.

Val Kilmer

#53. The most arrogant and admired people have a special kind of ignorance that the ignorant cannot see.

Robin Sacredfire

#54. It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.

ASAP Rocky

#55. When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

Mario Balotelli

#56. Angrier and angrier, that he had to do such things because men were filled with arrogant greed, because some wished to rule with neither the wit nor the self-knowledge to see their inadequacies - and how many of their people would die.

Greg Bear

#57. Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Joyce Meyer

#58. 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

#59. I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

Ewan McGregor

#60. When people say, "Oh you're so cocky. You're so arrogant," I feel like they're telling me that I think too highly of myself. My question for them is: "Who are you to tell me that I need to think less of myself?

Ronda Rousey

#61. I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

Lamar Alexander

#62. There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.

Joe Jamail

#63. You will never be able to live with two kinds of people; greedy rich and arrogant poor.

M.F. Moonzajer

#64. When I look back, I can see why people thought I was aggressive. My first single, 'Do It Like A Dude,' resulted in a lot of misconceptions about me. I'm confident - but I'm not arrogant.

Jessie J.

#65. People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve

Jeffrey Gitomer

#66. 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

#67. We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

Walter Kirn

#68. America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.

Vladimir Lenin

#69. Life isn't like the movies. People don't change overnight. people don't go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don't suddenly give in when they've spent years taking out. No doesn't magically become a Yes.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#70. That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.

Catherine Tate

#71. People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.

Watchman Nee

#72. People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

Matt McGorry

#73. We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.

Jostein Gaarder

#74. I always laugh at people who say "I've never met a rich technician" I love that! Its such an arrogant, nonsensical response. I used fundamentals for 9 years and got rich as a technician

Martin S. Schwartz

#75. Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.

John Eliot

#76. That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant
the act of a tyrant.

Marcus Aurelius

#77. I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

Hugh Leonard

#78. We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are - to most people - not important at all.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#79. I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.'

Pink

#80. Man is the most powerful creature on the planet. And we're arrogant. I mean, people own birds. It's like, there's a creature with the gift of flight. I want it. I'm going to put it in my kitchen and make it crap on old information.

Demetri Martin

#81. I don't think the science is clear of what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted, for the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you.

Jeb Bush

#82. Confucius said, People may have the finest talents, but if they are arrogant and stingy, their other qualities are not worthy of consideration.

Sun Tzu

#83. I think the worst thing you can do is take an arrogant approach and not give people enough content to wrap their heads around.

Tyrese Gibson

#84. Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

Rush Limbaugh

#85. My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

Nicki Minaj

#86. I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.

Eric Dickerson

#87. McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who'd had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts of people and politicians as not to be taken all that seriously.

Robert Dallek

#88. That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

Daniel Radcliffe

#89. Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned.

Robert Kiyosaki

#90. I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

Kanye West

#91. To think that we as a publisher (i.e. people who have never actually MADE a game) can have a realistic impact on a project that a team of experts is slaving away on full time for 2 years is a bit arrogant.

Mike Wilson

#92. People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#93. 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

#94. I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

Lisa Marie Presley

#95. Farther the government must not go. It must not attempt any service of any kind for the people, from the mere mechanism of carrying their letters to that most arrogant and ill-conceived of universal schemes, the education of their children.

Auberon Herbert

#96. What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used.

Todd Solondz

#97. I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.

Patrice Motsepe

#98. Beware of those who are too focused with polishing and beautifying their outer shells. They lack true substance to understand that genuine beauty is reflected from the heart that resides inside.

Suzy Kassem

#99. Many people can't sing their praise or feel proud of themselves in front of others because they are scared to be labelled as 'arrogant' or 'big-headed'. Social acceptance is more important than self-esteem in the 21st century - and that's not good.

Maddy Malhotra

#100. [T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

Dick Armey