ARROGANCE QUOTES III
quotations about arrogance
Arrogance is a mask for insecurity more often than not. Usually when somebody is acting in what you would consider to be an arrogant manner, it's usually covering up for the opposite.
ANSON MOUNT
"Anson Mount returns to Dickson Co. High stage", The Tennessean, February 26, 2016
Arrogance is the twin of a more noble impulse ... a profound certainty that often yields wonderful results.
MATT VELLA
"Silicon Valley's Arrogance Is Out of Beta and Ready to Ship", Time, July 16, 2014
Arrogance is one result of building self-esteem from outward sources such as financial privilege or constant praise. However, yank the external support system away, and the person's sense of self-worth goes with it.
DEREK WHITNEY
"The Fine Line Between Self-Confidence & Cockiness", Psych Central, December 26, 2012
People dislike arrogance. There are many people who think that arrogance is the way to get respect, but they fail to understand that pride and arrogance are the precursors to failure.
FRANCIS J. KONG
"How is your attitude?", Philippine Star, February 26, 2016
Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.
TERRY PRATCHETT
The Long Earth
When bold people walk in faith and work hard to make their dreams come true, the faithless crowd perceives arrogance. Sometimes arrogance is just faith. But the crowd doesn't live its dreams, the crowd doesn't build a business that will impact the world and the crowd doesn't live an extraordinary life.
DRAGOS BRATASANU
"The Virtues of Arrogance", Huffington Post, June 16, 2015
Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.
GEORGE CRABBE
English Synonyms
Celebrity arrogance is a good thing, as long as they continue to back it with immense talent and flow in the thick of the pop culture tide, then they have leave to become proud. It helps their brand value, does no hurt to them personally, and above all, in Nigerian lingo; it keeps their market selling.
JOEY AKAN
"Arrogance in Nigerian celebrities is a good thing", Pulse, March 16, 2016
Arrogance in celebrities is like bright petals on a nectarless flower. They make them become larger than life and grudgingly desirable. Their respect value rises, and people who have to deal with them on a professional level accord them the most respect and reverence. Simply put, the arrogance breeds an aura of power, which is highly beneficial to the bearer.
JOEY AKAN
"Arrogance in Nigerian celebrities is a good thing", Pulse, March 16, 2016
Myth 3: Arrogance is okay as long as it's backed up.
Reality: You don't want to work with a brilliant jerk. Your team doesn't want to work with a brilliant jerk. Nobody does. Spending 40-plus hours a week on someone who is arrogant, entitled, or negative is a waste of precious time.
WILLIAM VANDERLBOEMEN
"Why So Many Employers End up Hiring Awful Job Candidates", Fortune, March 9, 2016
Minimize the swagger. Egos get in the way of ideas. If your arrogance is more obvious than your expertise, you are someone other people avoid.
JESSICA HAGY
"10 ways to be the most interesting person in any room", NAIJ, February 29, 2016
Pride (which is to say, arrogance) is sometimes held to be the worst of the sins and I think I agree, since so much vice and bad judgment flow from the prideful.
ROD SMITH
"Virginia Poet Laureate Ron Smith Discusses the Seven Deadly Sins", Huffington Post, March 10, 2016
Every one of us has an opportunity to be arrogant toward some people. Indeed, certain expressions of arrogance run from the apex to the base of the organization we call society. Fortunately, our national ideals, influenced by the national fondness for humor, have modified the more glaring expressions. With us arrogance shown in personal demeanor is comic. On the street it would create derision and invite the irreverent attention of the small boy.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"The Decline of Arrogance"
Arrogance is not strength. Arrogance is just another mask for fear.
BRUCE DUFFY
Disaster Was My God
In fact, arrogance is kind of key to artistry -- believing that you're so brilliant that you deserve the right to tell a story.
BRANDON WAGNER
"'The Revenant' is a Staggering Work of Boring Genius", The Emory Wheel, December 4, 2015
Hubris, arrogance is just one step ahead of loss of integrity. Because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think as many leaders have that the rules don't apply to them.
CHARLES KOCH
"What Trump and Obama Have in Common", Fox Business, December 8, 2015
Arrogance can have the appearance of confidence and charisma. It can make you bold and audacious. Both confidence and arrogance can lead to success. Both the confident and the arrogant are willing to take risks; to do and say things others will not. The difference is that the confident grow. They are secure enough to take correction. The arrogant take correction as an insult and are constantly fighting to stand their shaky ground.
ADRIAN GREEN
"Get Real: Arrogance of youth, elders", Nation News, March 6, 2016
Arrogance is a double edged sword. More often than not it subsumes the personalities to self-destruction as they lack the power of self-discrimination and self-examination.
RAVI VALLURI
"Angry and arrogant mind", The Free Press Journal, February 27, 2016
Arrogance is always offensive, because in demanding more than its due--for this meaning appears in the etymology of the word--it manifests a petulant and injurious disposition that disdains to be controlled by good breeding or any other restraint.
JAMES BEATTIE
Elements of Moral Science
Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.
ZIAUDDIN SARDAR
Reading the Qur'an