Arrogance Quotes

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.

Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all.

In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.

Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.

Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists.

Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. – Teddy White

Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation.

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

It is not that men become too intelligent for God, ' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling "primitive" (since this renders us "modern" without having to exert ourselves further to earn this qualification)...

Human looks sure on face, while the earth lost in space.

Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

For when he was poor, he had an unpretentious heart, but when he became rich, he became filled with arrogance.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.

When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.

Parent must set an example to their children in love, in deeds and in conduct.

Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.

My question is whether America can overcome the fatal arrogance of power.

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Arrogance will kill anything and everything you ever possibly have.

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

Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.

The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them.

She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you'll learn more.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.

At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.

The map? I will first make it.

For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.

The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride.