Arrogance Quotes
There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.
A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.
One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.
No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.
By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.
The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.
Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.
Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton
Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers
Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.
I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.
As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.
The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.
Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.
Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.
You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance.
Del UsionIf you knew the personHe thinks he isYou'd have to admitHe's one very special guy.
We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis
Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do, " the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is, " said Pope Clement.
Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.
At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.
How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.
Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.
I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.
This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.
Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.
Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.