Arrogant People Quotes

• An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Arrogant Person, Perfect, Arrogance

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy (p. 110), 1909.

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• Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

  Zig Ziglar

  Leadership, Strong, Humble

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 27, 2013

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• We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.

  William Henry Willimon

  Blessed, People, Proud

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• 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

  Vanity, People, Soul

  Lewis B. Smedes (1978). “Love Within Limits: Realizing Selfless Love in a Selfish World”, p.35, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sorry, Honesty, Humility

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• The cost for the recipient of God’s grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.

  Dan B. Allender

  People, Grace, Cost

  Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman (1992). “Bold love”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.

  Donald Miller

  Self Esteem, Believe, Talking

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.127, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.

  Selena

  People, Arrogant, Assuming

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• I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Being Yourself, Humility, People

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• What I don’t like are arrogant people. We’re all equal. I don’t like it when a person assumes to be better. It angers me a little. There are a lot of people like that, but the world keeps turning. I also don’t like lies. I’m very honest. I’m always going to tell the truth. I don’t lie. I treat my friends the way I want to be treated.

  Selena

  Lying, People, Arrogant

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• Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

  Sam Donaldson

  Jobs, People, Needs

  Sam Donaldson (1988). “Hold On, Mr. President”, Fawcett Books

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• I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.

  Timberlake Wertenbaker

  Thinking, Years, People

  Timberlake Wertenbaker (2002). “Plays”

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• The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.

  Rickey Henderson

  Cocky, Mean, Games

  "Rickey rules". Interview with Dennis Manoloff, www.cleveland.com. July 25, 2009.

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• No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.

  Booth Tarkington

  Heart, People, Heaven

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.64, Booklassic

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