what is the diference between confidence and arrogance?

Answer 1

Confidence is based on being secure in the belief that you can handle the situation.

Arrogance is a veil used in an attempt to hide insecurity.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Confidence is having faith in yourself that you can do what ever task is in front of you while arrogance is feeling that one might be better than the rest at something. Sometimes arrogance is blinding-it can harm even fatally at times. An Arabic saying says that "arrogance is that which grows on top of a dung hill." God did not creat us to be arrogant but humble and compassionate towards our fellow beings.

Answer 3

confidence is when your just happy to be who you are and your not going to let anyone get you down because you know that you like who you are and it's something that your not afraid to hide. arrogance is when your cocky and you really wont let people get to you because you think your simply better not because you know that you like who you are. arrogance is more how you feel that other people look at you, so you try to make yourself better to make people see that you are better than them. confidence is more about how you see yourself and the perspective you have of yourself.

Answer 4

Theirs not much difference except Modesty. Anybody that is arrogant is confident but you don't have to be arrogant to be confident.

Answer 5

Confidence is honest. Arrogance is telling yourself you are better than you are.

Answer 6

confidence is believing in yourself, arrogance is believing your better than others

Answer 7

believing in yourself(confidence) and believing it is about you(arrogance)

Answer 8

confidence:

1. belief in own abilities: self assurance or a belief in your ability to succeed
lacked the confidence needed to reach the top


2. faith in somebody to do right: belief or trust in somebody or something, or in the ability of somebody or something to act in a proper, trustworthy, or reliable manner
I have total confidence in her judgment.

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861599489

self-assurance arising from an appreciation of one’s abilities

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/confidence?view=uk

1 a: a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances b: faith or belief that one will act in a right, proper, or effective way
2: the quality or state of being certain : certitude

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=confidence

arrogance:

an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=arrogance

unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people - "He has a self-confidence that is sometimes seen as arrogance."

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=4082&dict=CALD

The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption. Closely related to the act of arrogating.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Arrogance

offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.

http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/arrogance

unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are better or more important than other people

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=arrogant*1+0&dict=A

The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.

http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=arrogance

overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

Said of someone or their behaviour: aggressively and offensively self-assertive; having or showing too high an opinion of one's own abilities or importance; impudently over-presumptive.

Thesaurus: conceited, haughty, condescending, insolent, contemptuous, disdainful, high and mighty, lordly, patronizing, imperious, supercilious, superior; Antonym: humble.

http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=3&Keyword=Arrogance&goquery=Find+it%21&Language=ENG

condescension, superciliousness, disdainfulness -- (the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior)
contemptuousness -- (the manifestation of scorn and contempt; ``every subordinate sensed his contemptuousness and hated him in return'' )
hubris -- (overbearing pride or presumption)
imperiousness, domineeringness, overbearingness -- (the trait of being imperious and overbearing)
superiority -- (displaying a sense of being better than others; ``he hated the white man's superiority and condescension'' )
snobbery, snobbism, snobbishness -- (the trait of condescending to those of lower social status)

superbia -- (unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins

chesty, self-important -- (having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride

http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/wn?cmd=wn&word=arrogance



http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=arrogance

disagreeable behavior resulting from excessive pride

http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=arrogance&matchtype=exact