Harry S. Truman Quotes

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

[Douglas] MacArthur is the type of man who thinks that when he gets to heaven, God will step down from the great white throne and bow him into His vacated seat.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

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

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

Washington is a city of arrogance.

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

I don’t see how our country can produce such men as Robert E. Lee, John J Pershing, Eisenhower and Bradley and at the same time produce Custers, Pattons, and MacArthurs.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

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.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I was a cocky kid.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

Vanity is my favourite sin.