arrogance

She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the wrong is done, a mancan turn his back on folly, misfortune too,if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen,and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornnessbrands you for stupidity - pride is a crime.

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.

Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you." "Why?""Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are you will be by far the most vulnerable. You must stay with Meg and Calvin. You must not go off on your own. Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.

Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.

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.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

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.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-respect. We all see the world through the prism of our identity. If our self-worth is low, it affects everything we do. The point of life is to contribute to others, but without a certain self-regard, it is sometimes difficult to make breakfast.

But the arrogance of old age can cloak itself in the authority of past accomplishments, which can serve to confirm the belief that one__ arrogance is justly held. It can shield a man from the realization that his beliefs have calcified, that he can no longer assess a situation accurately at first glance, that the world has changed around him and left him behind. Guarded from this knowledge, he remains content.

Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.

It takes just a little attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.