Kika de la Garza Quotes

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.

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.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

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

I'm the best. I should win everything.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

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

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

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

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

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.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

It all goes completely to your head.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

We’ve been an arrogant country.