In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.
We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance.
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved.
The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.
The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth.
A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.
[Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a lack of predictability.
A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said. . . and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.
Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness, an impatience with sloppy thinking can naturally to both of us.
My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget]. . . how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.
Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.
[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.
There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason. . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.