Smugness Quotes

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

Contentment should not be confused with smugness… Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures.

His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them.

Harvey Mansfield

Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.

moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.

Nicholas Kristof

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

Elton Trueblood

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

Flannery O'Connor

It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.

David Halberstam

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.

Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.

Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.