Gail Bradbrook Quotes

I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

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

Be careful of hubris about ideas—especially your own. Remember always, that there is one commonality between all the good ideas that were ever created and all the bad ideas: The people you created them thought that they were good ideas.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

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.

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

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

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

Washington is a city of arrogance.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

I was a cocky kid.

I look upon pride as a sin.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

One may be humble out of pride.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

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