George Herbert Quotes

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

People should just get over themselves.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

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

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

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

Thinking you're a genius is death.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.