Quotes about Arrogance

Pride makes us rest content with ourselves—think we are good enough as we are—keep us from taking advice—refuse the gospel of Christ—turn every one to his own way. But pride never reigns anywhere so powerfully as in the heart of a young man.

The less we feel we need to address pride, the more it has already blinded us.

Ms. Babylon has thus come to see herself as God: "I shall always be here, mistress forever... I and I alone am still here" (Is 47:7, 8). No superpower can ever imagine it will cease to be in power, but this means its pretension is quasi-divine and must be corrected.

America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our arrogance is producing a socialist state that is becoming our god. The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines—as well as upon works!

Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.

Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.