Arrogance Quotes - Page 10

• [F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

  Sherman Alexie

  Tipping, Be Kind, Guilty

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Oct 22, 2015

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• You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

  Amy Tan

  Pride, Each Day, Born

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• ..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Simple, Answers, Problem

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.19, PublicAffairs

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• wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.

  Lucille Clifton

  Believe, Son, Thinking

  Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

  Paul Johnson

  Powerful, Earth Day, Cost

  Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”

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• ...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death really means anymore. Maybe that was the point. Maybe this is an object lesson about the arrogance of our assumptions. Hard to say. But the world? She didn't change. She healed. We stopped hurting her and she began to heal. You can see it all around. The whole world is a forest now. The air is fresher. More trees, more oxygen.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Hurt, Mean, Air

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.679, Simon and Schuster

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• The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Mistake, Struggle, Two

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.2, Jester House Publishing

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• You don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Coyote “Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade. More times than not, it injures the one who wields it most of all.” – Choo Co La Tah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kings, Talking, Numbers

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• You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over.

  Toni Braxton

  Successful, Needs, Sides

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• Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don't apply to them - so they lose their integrity.

  Charles Koch

  Integrity, Loss, Thinking

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Children, Nuts, Evil

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• Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

  Eric Bana

  Frustration, Careers, Trying

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• In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Worry, Ends

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.425, Macmillan

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• Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.

  Gail Carriger

  Jobs, Description, Alphas

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• Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

  Terry Pratchett

  Modesty, Stealth

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• Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Flaws, Mines

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• At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sexy, Witty, Cocky

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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• Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Pride

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 29, 2011

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• If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

  Tamora Pierce

  Shoes, Barefoot, Ifs

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.151, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

  Agatha Christie

  Simple, Police, Facts

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

  Rachel Caine

  Ifs, Superiors

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Undone: Outcast Season, Book One”, p.13, Penguin

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• It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

  Neal Shusterman

  Bully, Doe, Lines

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Bruiser”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Issues, Males, Feminine

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• Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

  Marisha Pessl

  Dad, Character, Play

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.197, Penguin

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• Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

  Ilona Andrews

  Thinking, Height, Limits

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