Top 89 Self Arrogance Quotes
#1. His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them.
Harvey Mansfield
#2. His core business still is self-promotion.
Joe Nocera
#3. To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#4. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
#5. How roundly self-examination is condemned, by the moral prophets of our age! As if the self had no relation to the self, and one only looked in mirrors to have one's arrogance confirmed; as if the act of self-regarding was not as subtle, fraught and ever-changing as any bond between twin souls.
Eleanor Catton
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there's arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there.
Cheryl Strayed
#9. You don't allow yourself the arrogance of self respect.
Robert Mamrak
#10. Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.
Kellie Elmore
#11. Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self.
Bryant McGill
#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. In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.
Dada Bhagwan
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self.
Balroop Singh
#17. Our membership in this Church ... should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for looking down upon others. All mankind is our neighbor.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#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. If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
Charles Horton Cooley
#21. People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
Edna Ferber
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.
Sam Owen
#26. Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
Franz Grillparzer
#27. 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
#28. One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.
A. J. Jacobs
#29. Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.
John Irving
#30. People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look
like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
Vanna Bonta
#31. Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#32. Arrogance based on relentless denial of faults eventually makes a person weary.
Sam Owen
#33. Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
Sivananda
#34. There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance.
Ian-Anthony Finnimore
#35. And as you wait for something that may never happen, you'll continue to hide behind a wall of your own making. You're afraid if you showed a woman who you really are, she will not love you. So, you choose to hide your true self behind a mask of arrogance.
L.G. Castillo
#36. 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
#37. It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.
John Fowles
#38. You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.
Jonathan Yardley
#39. Only God is in a position to look down upon someone.
Habeeb Akande
#40. Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.
Emma Goldman
#41. Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.
Stephen Jay Gould
#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. 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
#44. Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.
Paul Mooney
#45. Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle.
Garry Wills
#46. Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of ... except self?
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#47. Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
Michel De Montaigne
#48. The true gospel of Jesus Christ never led to bigotry. It never led to self-righteousn ess. It never led to arrogance. The true gospel of Jesus Christ leads to brotherhood, to friendship, to appreciation of others, to respect and kindness and love
Gordon B. Hinckley
#49. I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem,
Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams.
I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed,
But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh ...
Kanye West
#50. Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.
Ron Suskind
#51. Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.
R. Alan Woods
#52. It must be wonderful to be you, Dominic, and know that you alone have shaped yourself. It must be even more wonderful for other people, your mother and even God Himself for all I know, to know that. It absolves them of a terrible responsibility.
Jayne Bauling
#53. The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.
Bradford Cox
#54. You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.
Criss Jami
#55. 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
#56. The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride.
T.A. Cline
#57. Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.
Patricia Churchland
#58. Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.
John Hope Bryant
#59. This arrogance thing ... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.
James Corden
#60. Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.
Paul Hauck
#61. 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
#62. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#63. 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
#65. At sixteen, he was cursed with all the certainty of youth, unleavened by any trace of humor or self-doubt, and wed to the arrogance that came so naturally to those born blond and strong and handsome.
George R R Martin
#66. You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.
Rory McIlroy
#67. Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers
Harold Holzer
#68. It has not the arrogance of wine, the self- consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa.
Okakura Kakuzo
#69. Your courtship method of arrogance self-loathing, and then telling me how beautiful other girls are is pretty unique," said Kami. "I like it. I don't know what that says about me.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#70. 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
#71. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
Criss Jami
#72. He was a strange mixture of good and bad, of luxury and industry, courtesy and arrogance. In leisure he was self-indulgent, but full of vigour on service. His outward behaviour was praiseworthy, though ill was spoken of his private life.
Tacitus
#73. Don't mistake:
Kindness with weakness;
Assertiveness with arrogance;
Self-defense with hatred;
Self-care with vanity;
Faith with ignorance.
Charles F. Glassman
#74. 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
#75. And what do I smell like?"
"Like arrogance and self-adoration," she snapped. "I can smell it a mile off.Why bother saying you didn't help me when it could only have been you?
Frankie Rose
#76. An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.
Otto Weininger
#77. I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I've been saved from myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.
Stephen Mitchell
#81. For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.
Tom Conrad
#82. At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#83. Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
Richard Rohr
#84. Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#85. The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.
Jean Ziegler
#86. Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
N. T. Wright
#87. Her skirt was nice, but she was wearing a dull-colored blouse that wasn't at all attractive. I'd have to remember to tell her not to wear it when she was with me if the two of us were going to get together, I thought
Jonas Karlsson
#88. 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
#89. There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
Margaret Mead
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