Arrogant Quotes - Page 15

• Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude!

  Roger von Oech

  Attitude, Lazy, Answers

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• Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

  Greg Peterson

  Mother, Nature, Jobs

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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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• It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ceremony, Submit, Refuse

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

  Wendell Berry

  Mind, Vision, Desire

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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• Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Christian, War, Pride

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.126, Best Books on

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• I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Careers, Choices, Looks

  "12 Movie Stars Who Experienced Career Resurrections". www.indiewire.com. October 31, 2013.

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• If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, May

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours.... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Microsoft, Messages, Firsts

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• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  Iain Banks

  Legacy, Fiction, Fabric

  "Iain M Banks: Science fiction is no place for dabblers" by Iain M Banks, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

  Mario Balotelli

  Thinking, People

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• The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

  Simon Baker

  Thinking, Arrogance, Reputation

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson in there somewhere.

  Armistead Maupin

  Beautiful, Breakup, Love You

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• Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the arrogant presumption of knowing about God all that one can, they reduce Him to manageable terms and confine Him to a tidy theological box, the dimensions of which conform to their predilections of what a god ought to be and do.

  Sam Storms

  Knowing, Dimensions, Worship

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• The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Thinking, Ideas, Rejection

  Massimo Pigliucci (2010). “Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

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• A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field.

  Terrell Owens

  Thinking, People, Fields

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• A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Team, Personality

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• Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.

  Dick Gregory

  Pain, Animal, Rights

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• In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Views, Point Of View

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• Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Team, Selfish

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• It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, World, Opinion

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.50

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• Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

  Samuel Richardson

  Spiritual, Pride, Dangerous

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.73

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• Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

  Margaret Deland

  Army, Looks

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• Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

  Jack Welch

  Learning, Assuming, Know It All

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• If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Military, Art Of War

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