Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment,… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“The attitude that psychologists call inflation and the traditional lore of Cabalistic magic, borrowing a term from religion, calls spiritual pride is… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
The human species is its own enemy. We're our own demise. Greed and self interest is our bondage. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective. — Hermann Minkowski Copy Share Image
The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy. — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
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,… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The U.S.A. have a 'football arrogance,' which means winning is in their DNA - nothing else is good enough. — Alex Scott Copy Share Image
Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
