ARROGANCE QUOTES
quotations about arrogance
Don't confuse confidence with arrogance. Arrogance is being full of yourself, feeling you're always right, and believing your accomplishments or abilities make you better than other people. People often believe arrogance is excessive confidence, but it's really a lack of confidence. Arrogant people are insecure, and often repel others. Truly confident people feel good about themselves and attract others to them.
CHRISTIE HARTMAN
It's Not Him, It's You
Arrogance is pride polluted by the child-self. Pride is a natural and self-rewarding feeling of worth and efficacy which results from achievement. Arrogance, on the other hand, is a feeling of superiority and entitlement which completely annihilates the "we" for the "I."
W. T. WATTS
A Personal Journey to Positive Change
Arrogant people are non-learners. They invest their energies in maintaining a cozy feeling of complacency, and complacency is the biggest single enemy to the process of continuously learning from experience. Arrogant people are exactly the sort of people who are destined to have one year's experience 20 times rather than 20 years' worth of experience.
PETER HONEY
Problem People: And How to Deal with Them
That which inspires arrogance is ignorance, caused by the heart's blindness.
SAEED MALIK
A Perspective on the Signs of Al-Quran
You're so damn arrogant. If you ever met God, the first thing you'd say is what are you doing in my chair?
LISA GARDNER
The Perfect Husband
Nothing is so unpalatable to arrogant people as to meet with scorn where they expected an unqualified admission of superiority.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY
The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
Arrogant leadership is toxic to an organization. It looks like strength but is a debilitating weakness.
IRA CHALEFF
The Courageous Follower
Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of touch, she truly doesn't know who she is. This is one of the greatest tragedies of shame cover-ups: not only does the person hide from others, she also hides from herself.
JOHN BRADSHAW
Healing the Shame That Binds You
Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.
IMMANUEL KANT
The Metaphysics of Morals
Arrogance is an unhealthy ego in need of repair.
THOMAS FARANDA
The Global Sales Professional
Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.
LEWIS B. SMEDES
Love Within Limits
Confidence is a nice suit. Arrogance is the same suit with suspenders, Italian loafers, and gold cuff links.
TIM SCHNEIDER
Lead Well
An arrogant man is a weak man.
ANONYMOUS
The arrogance of some people makes even their virtues appear vices.
BOUHOURS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.
STEVE ALTEN
The Loch
Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.
DAVID HUME
Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political
Usually arrogance is a mask for a lack of confidence. People who lack confidence may display arrogance as a way of compensating for the way they feel.
JAY CARTER & BOBBI DEMPSY
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bipolar Disorder
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Chicago Tribune, Sep. 26, 2004
Arrogance is a self-defense tactic to disguise insecurities.
CAROLL MICHELS
How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist
The fragile line between confidence and arrogance is humility.
NORMAN E. BOWIE & MEG SCHNEIDER
Business Ethics for Dummies