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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.
I think everybody thinks they can have the next $100 million venue. I think there is a bit of arrogance in that.
Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school.
I take offence if I'm called arrogant, because I've been brought up in a family that does not endorse arrogance.
I'm good at what I do. I'm really, really good at what I do, and I'm not saying this with any level of arrogance.
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
Hillary Clinton has her own issues with just her own arrogance as a leader; that has been well known for a long time.
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.
This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.
The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.
You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.
We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance.
There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.
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.
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.
In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.
If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.
Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
What am I missing to be the best in the world? Honestly, nothing in terms of quality, just consistency, and that's not arrogance.
I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.
Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.
Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.