“I paid you five thousand instead and promised the balance only if you made the match. As it turns out, this is… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. — Bono Copy Share Image
On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate… — Liu Xia Copy Share Image
I never thought that I couldn't do what I set out to do. It wasn't from arrogance; it was from ignorance. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
“People often think of humility as the act of saying 'I am not that great.' This is lack of confidence. True humility… — Matthew Goldfinger Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Insecurity was never humility; just as arrogance was never success.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“Confirming what you see as reality...is a true sign of your arrogance.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image