Friday, April 26, 2013

Differences between Confidence and Arrogance

It is very common when people people address someone as arrogant or confident. People often misinterpret arrogance with confidence. There is a very distinct border between these nouns which people often overlook and consider a confident person arrogant. 

Confidence and arrogance are two completely different personality trait of a person. Confidence is the belief within oneself or other people which we develop only when we have a complete knowledge or when we have a full trust on others knowledge. But arrogance doesn't need knowledge. It is a pride that one has for herself/himself and when one overlooks other people’s skill or knowledge and think highly about themselves.

Confidence is something which we feel about us but arrogance is something that others may feel about us. For instance we have confidence even when we are alone doing our work but we are not arrogant until we have someone else around us. So, our arrogance is felt by others whereas our confidence is felt by ourselves.

As mentioned earlier there is a distinct border between confidence and arrogance which is ego. A confident person will not have an ego problem but an arrogant person will. He/she will exaggerate their skills and ability and are always ready to show off. 


Arrogance and confidence can be distinguished by the behavior of a person. Confident person are inspiring and makes us feel good about them but arrogant person are uninspiring and make us develop a negative feeling about them. Arrogance can be considered as a behavior of a person when they feel they are more important than other people, so they are rude or do not consider others. Confidence is a belief on own ability to do things successfully and the trust in others too. Arrogance shows behaving in a proud way which is not found in confidence. Arrogant character reflects upon no any thoughts for others but only think about themselves. But confident character has a very bright view upon others and can analyze and interpret others ideas in a positive way.

So, from overall description it is clear that these two emotions of human beings are way different from each other. These emotion lead the direction in our life. Confidence leads to the understanding of the certain areas of self –strength, accepting the weakness or faults with grace and implementing effective ways to correct them whereas arrogance leads to the downfall of one’s personality in the eyes of other people as well as in life as arrogant people cannot accept their mistakes and go on praising about themselves however wrong they may be.






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