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For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
prone to fits of 'immoderate arrogance'.
But it is arrogance that keeps one alive: the belief that one can choose, that one' choice is important, that one is responsible only to oneself. Without arrogance what would we be?
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
Integrity - Take the harder right over the easier wrong.
Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.
Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses.
It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one's emotions' attempt to contaminate one's opinions.
INTEGRITY ... Choosing your thoughts, words and actions based on what's right rather than what's in it for you.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear
civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.
Conquer with forbearance
The excesses of insolence.
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?
Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.
Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
exasperating composure.
Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals
Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.
Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.
Impunity: it's always impunity that gets you dancing. What did I care about
being ridiculous? I was on my way to earning a superior kind of impunity, and
nobody knew it.
At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.
Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie?
Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.
Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
Impertinent is a word which actually means not suitable to the circumstances, but most people use it to mean I am using a complicated word in hopes that it will make you stop talking ...
Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.
knowing your power
is what creates
humility.
not know your power
is what creates
insecurity.
Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.
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I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.
Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant.
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
When we doubt our minds, we tend to discount its products. If we fear intellectual self-assertiveness, perhaps associating it with loss of love, we mute our intelligence. We dread being visible; so we make ourselves invisible, then suffer because no one sees us.
Intellectual effort for its own sake, they call eccentricity.
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done.
Caprice and irresponsibility ... .
Those two words sum you up; your whole nature's contained in those
two words.
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
What was said by the Latin poet of labor
that it conquers all things
is much more true when applied to impudence.
that heavy, indifferent lassitude which is not the will to laziness, but the frustration of the will to a secret violence that no lesser action can satisfy. That
The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.
arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom
Among people lacking self-restraint, those apt to be impulsive40 are better than those who are in possession of an argument [logos] but do not abide by it. For
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence.
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
Immaculate Deception.
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and discipline and virtue are all myths invented to control you.
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
Ingratitude is the soul's enemy ... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
In indolent vacuity of thought.
Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.
strength and honor
Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
Intelligence is the unlimited ability to conceive of concepts, and arrogance is the belief that one "knows" anything.
Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.
Power. Like wine when you have it. Like poison when you lose it.
a quick intelligence he squanders on an insatiable need to advance some impression of himself - that
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
When you are a prisoner in your own mind, imprudence soon becomes your cellmate.
Arrogance is the last thing to die
Ambition is the mind's immodesty.
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.
aplomb. Sometimes the sheer bravado of her actions astonished
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.