ARROGANCE QUOTES

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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

Tags: confidence


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

Tags: pride


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


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

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That which inspires arrogance is ignorance, caused by the heart's blindness.

SAEED MALIK

A Perspective on the Signs of Al-Quran

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Arrogant leadership is toxic to an organization. It looks like strength but is a debilitating weakness.

IRA CHALEFF

The Courageous Follower

Tags: strength, weakness


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

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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

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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

Tags: shame


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

Tags: vanity, fear


Confidence is a nice suit. Arrogance is the same suit with suspenders, Italian loafers, and gold cuff links.

TIM SCHNEIDER

Lead Well

Tags: confidence


Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

STEVE ALTEN

The Loch

Tags: ignorance


An arrogant man is a weak man.

ANONYMOUS

Tags: weakness, anonymous


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

Tags: mistakes, David Hume


The arrogance of some people makes even their virtues appear vices.

BOUHOURS

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: virtue, vice


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

Tags: confidence


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

Tags: humility, Frank Lloyd Wright


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

Tags: confidence, humility