Arrogant Quotes

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Greatest, Loved, Demand

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela

Good, End, Leader

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
Mike Tyson

Love, Happen, Themselves

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
Charles Stanley

Leadership, God, Fear

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Giving, Democracy, Happen

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
Talib Kweli

Humble, Hard, Soft

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir

Women, Toward, Aggressive

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Andrea Dworkin

Time, Men, Stupid

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Paul Wellstone

Politics, Speak, Lives

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
Henry Rollins

Work, Good, Mean

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney J. Harris

Young, Old, Idea

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
Mehmet Oz

God, Heart, Person

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana

Deep, Down, Blood

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
Louise Slaughter

Government, Integrity, Honesty

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?
Justin Bieber

Girl, Down, Trying

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
Hugh Leonard

Life, Change, Time

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Tony Blair

Government, Priorities, Choose

Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.
Shahrukh Khan

Feeling, Start, Star

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.
Russell Crowe

Time, Focused, Accuse

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
Jose Mourinho

Special, Champion, Call

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.
Daniel Radcliffe

Understand, Why, Become

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
A. N. Wilson

Life, Truth, Liars

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
Tom Hiddleston

Good, Lonely, Human

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
Bjork

Expect, Nobody, Quite

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
Tony Campolo

God, Country, America

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
Anthony Hopkins

Try, Himself, Orchestra

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.
Noel Gallagher

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
Carly Fiorina

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
Twyla Tharp

Foolish, Audience, Extremely

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
David Duchovny

Men, Aggressive, Images

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