“One of the most disruptive forces in the Church is arrogance. It is natural for people to bring their pride to Church, and try to prove their own greatness to others. This is an urge we need to constantly be fighting” PeopleNeedsTryingFightingForceNaturalChurchGreatnessPrideProveArroganceUrgesDisruptive Author:Dan Schilling
“A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.” MenLittlesDoePlayTurnsGreatnessBlessingDiseaseBehaviorInjusticeEnjoymentArroganceFollyTemperSovereignBlastParamountSwaggerDiscreditSwelling Author:Jeremy Collier
“There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.” PeopleKnowsWayStageGreatnessPraiseAdmireBridgesArroganceRepresentingPresumptuous Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.” BigsSeemsGreatnessHealthyArroganceSwelling Author:Saint Augustine
“Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.” IfsMenHas BeensSaidWrittenGreatnessArroganceGreat MenFinches Book:West with the Night Source: West with the Night
“The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.” MenReasonMotivationalSufferingHateViolenceGreatnessHumilityDignityPrejudiceToleranceViolentTyrannyResistanceArroganceHumiliationNon ViolentNon Violent Resistance Author:Liu Xia
“Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.” BornGreatnessHumilityArrogance Author:Marco Pierre White