People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone’s offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

Money isn’t the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I’ve met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that...

Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the...

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the wrong is done, a mancan turn his back on folly, misfortune too,if he tries to make amends, however low he’s fallen,and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornnessbrands you for stupidity – pride is a crime.

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

Dilute your arrogance with a smile.

The contest of world’s tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.

[The attempt to ensure passage] was a mixture of arrogance and stupidity, … It would have made a Sunni boycott (of Saturday’s vote) inevitable.

Arrogant people beat each other.

Smartass Disciple: Master, we should not spend our time to low life like them.Master of Stupidity: If I don’t, then how should I lead men like you to be wiser?

You do not know me for sure, yet you feel yourself better than me.But if you ever deliberately provoke me, in a way trying to hurt me, I’m so worried that you will die, or injured with heart full of revenge.The kind of revenge which you will never be able to fully retaliate, a revenge...

I once got lost in a dark woods with no supplies.Struggling to deal with nature, beasts and storms,that was time when I lost my arrogance as human.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that’s fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

Underestimate is the sign of getting fucked up.

Your arrogance doesn’t cheapen me.

The fighting in Palestine is a war between the (whole) Islamic nation and the world of arrogance, … Today, Palestinians are representing the Islamic nation against arrogance.

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the universe.

Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.

When you claim to be what you’re not, you’re deliberately killing opportunities, because those who would have help will shun you, thinking that you had it all already.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of … except self?

To put an arrogant ‘famous’ singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

Quotes? you want quotes?To sound important, quote yourself

…a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it – and not by spending as he please but by knowing...

The kind of love bounded by the sympathy will break down by arrogance.

What is more arrogant than to assume that of all the paths through the woods yours is the only true one.

Arroganz ist die Karikatur des Stolzes.

Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.

The peacock’s plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence!

Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are administered by local commanders, who liaise with the national offices for information exchange, guidance and policy decisions. Like any other...

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

All of yesterday’s ballers are today’s road sweepers.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can’t see when you’re unashamedly looking down on someone.

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand...

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very...

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

God save me from fools with a little philosophy – no one is more difficult to reach.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn’t do it with his chest stuck out.

I had a dream about you. My pee was cloudy, and I brought an umbrella to the urinal. You were the Coach of the Men’s Room, and you were giving me advice on how to be a better weatherman. But I didn’t listen, because I was the arrogant five-time MVP.