Arrogance Quotes - page 3

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is ... there is no conclusion yet. View quote
Osamu Tezuka
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson. View quote
Elizabeth Peters
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. View quote
Chris Lowe
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. View quote
David Price
Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C. View quote
Dan Benishek
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. View quote
George Stevens
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. View quote
Goldwin Smith
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. View quote
Graydon Carter
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. View quote
Jeffrey Kluger
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)
You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them. View quote
Knute Nelson
There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better. View quote
Mary Steenburgen
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. View quote
Marya Mannes
The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves. View quote
Pixie Lott
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited. View quote
Patrick Stewart
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success. View quote
Rick Pitino
Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance. View quote
Ralph G. Neas
I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed. View quote
Steve Madden
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. View quote
Trevor Nunn
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. (Theodore Bikel)
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine. View quote
Theodore Bikel
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. View quote
William Pollard
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. View quote
Alexander Haig
If you neither believe in religion nor fear the hereafter, then at least be free from tyranny and arrogance. View quote
Husayn ibn Ali