Top 57 Quotes About Confidence And Arrogance
#1. There is a thin line between confidence, and arrogance. Sadly those people who have no confidence often confuse the two when confronted with a person who possesses belief in themselves.
Sai Marie Johnson
#2. 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
#3. The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie," he added, without looking at her.
Michael Scott
#4. She said confidence and arrogance weren't the same, especially in a Dominant, and I'd know I had the right Dom for me when he was....when he was intimidating enough to be arousing, wise enough to keep me safe, and caring enough to help me grow, even when the right choices were hard ones.
M.Q. Barber
#5. It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines.
Neal Shusterman
#6. An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.
Christopher Fry
#7. Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.
Suzy Kassem
#8. That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.
Robyn Davidson
#9. It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.
Jeffrey Kluger
#10. Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.
Dave Ulrich
#11. 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
#12. It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.
Russell Baker
#13. It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.
Michael Johnson
#14. Kolya was a braggart, a know-it-all, a Jew-baiting Cossack, but his confidence was so pure and complete it no longer seemed like arrogance, just the mark of a man who had accepted his own heroic destiny.
David Benioff
#15. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.
Shannon L. Alder
#16. Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.
Jeannette Walls
#17. People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
Edna Ferber
#18. When confidence is deemed arrogance..
Happiness and joy deemed showing off self..
Strong words deemed mere big talk and rhetoric..
Small minds..only time will prove and show the truth..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#19. If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.
Patrick Rothfuss
#20. He was a cocky devil. Lisbeth liked cocky devils, just as she detested pompous jerks. There was only a subtle difference.
Stieg Larsson
#22. The Most Common Reason You Leave A Peak Too Soon Is Arrogance, Masquerading As Confidence. The Most Common Reason You Stay In A Valley Too Long Is Fear, Masquerading As Comfort.
Spencer Johnson
#23. Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.
Warren Eyster
#24. Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers
#25. With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.
Eric Mangini
#26. Arrogance based on relentless denial of faults eventually makes a person weary.
Sam Owen
#27. Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#28. Confidence is a tool. Arrogance is a disadvantage.
Courtney Lane
#29. High as winged imagination's flight is, Nothing it is able to conceive suffices. But minds uncommon, deep, preserved from arrogance, Have in the infinite infinite confidence.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#30. Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind.
Shannon L. Alder
#31. Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you're better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.
Simon Sinek
#32. She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?
Libbie Hawker
#33. It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.
David Laskin
#34. Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.
Vitor Belfort
#35. You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#36. Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#37. Avoid any Dom with a large ego. Do not mistake arrogance for confidence.
Red Phoenix
#38. In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here was a job where confidence, energy, perhaps even a certain arrogance were all that mattered, all qualities that lay within his grasp.
David Nicholls
#39. 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
#40. Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.
Habeeb Akande
#41. You would be amazed at how similar arrogance and confidence look at first glance.
Patrick Rothfuss
#42. He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.
Christopher Paolini
#43. One can perceive me only with his limited vision. A droplet can't perceive the extent of the ocean.
~ Aarush Kashyap
Kirtida Gautam
#44. Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.
Ron Suskind
#45. Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance.
George R R Martin
#46. I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
James Corden
#47. Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else,
Confidence is knowing no one is above you.
Habeeb Akande
#48. If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.
Trevor Nunn
#49. My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke into many different voices. I introduce many different characters, and that helped me to develop a confidence to move between different characters, between different voices.
Joanna Scott
#50. When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy.
Teresa Mummert
#51. Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance. He never seemed ill at ease, and even when he did not speak the language, he had ways of making himself understood.
George R R Martin
#52. The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.
Keyshawn Johnson
#53. How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind - impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
George Eliot
#54. What I say on a record and what I say off a record is two different things. And that's always been the case. There's a difference between confidence on a record and arrogance.
LL Cool J
#55. When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?
Vishwas Chavan
#56. You don't appreciate confidence?" "I don't appreciate arrogance. There's a difference." "And what is the difference?" "Confidence is arrogance without an asshole
Larissa Ione
#57. I watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he'd whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom.
Jeffrey Archer
