Arrogant Quotes (133 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Zig Ziglar
„The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.“
― Zig Ziglar ―
Picture of quotation author Charlyne Yi
„Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.'“
― Charlyne Yi ―
Picture of quotation author Bokeem Woodbine
„I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people's attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn't realize that oftentimes it doesn't matter about the performance... it's the media that creates stars.“
― Bokeem Woodbine ―
Picture of quotation author Rosalind Wiseman
„When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. 'High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college.' But it's true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.“
Picture of quotation author Robert Winston
„I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.“
― Robert Winston ―
Picture of quotation author Casey Wilson
„Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.“
― Casey Wilson ―
Picture of quotation author A. N. Wilson
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Sheldon Whitehouse
„How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.“
Picture of quotation author Tina Weymouth
„I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?“
― Tina Weymouth ―
Picture of quotation author Paul Wellstone
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Orson Welles
„Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.“
― Orson Welles ―
Picture of quotation author Paul Watson
„I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.“
― Paul Watson ―
Picture of quotation author Gore Verbinski
„It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.“
― Gore Verbinski ―
Picture of quotation author Andrew Vachss
„I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.“
― Andrew Vachss ―
Picture of quotation author Mike Tyson
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Glenn Turner
„During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then.“
― Glenn Turner ―
Picture of quotation author Alberto Tomba
„I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.“
― Alberto Tomba ―
Picture of quotation author Twyla Tharp
„It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.“
― Twyla Tharp ―
Picture of quotation author Kurt Sutter
„I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.“
― Kurt Sutter ―
Picture of quotation author Lee Strobel
„Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.“
― Lee Strobel ―

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