Where's the line between confidence and arrogance?

Confidence is knowing for yourself that you can do it, and it is shown slightly. Arrogance is putting it out there for others to comment and appriciate, but it does way too far, cuz they want it. Confidence is for yourself, arrogance is for others. I think

That's a lot of what I was thinking

Confidence is positive and is knowing that you have gifts, talents, and abilities that have been given to you that you can use to reach a goal. Arrogance is the belief that you can do something all on your own and you are "better than____"

I think I agree with everything but this part: "Arrogance is the belief that you can do something all on your own". I do stuff all on my own all the time, it just depends on the situation.

Sorry, I meant it in a certain context. Like not in a physical way. Spiritually, we can't really do anything on our own, we need God to support us and help us. Even though we are the ones who accept Him, the Holy Spirit still has worked on our hearts up until that point, y'know? I suppose not admitting when you need help is also part of it. Idk

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I see. Yes, that makes sense

Yes, sorry I misspoke.

wow people are taking the meme thinking to the next level of brain

Good word, Brother. :)

I believe they are the same thing, except arrogance goes one step further by adding boasting.

Yeah pretty much. I have struggled keeping things strictly to confidence, but am much more humble as a full grown man. Arrogance is a waste of everyone's time.

So is confidence a positive or a negative thing?

Positive, as long as one is not overly confident.

Great question, imo. I don't think there's a line between them. I'm both, arrogant and confident. The confidence came from experience at working on lots of different problems. The arrogance developed similarly, and it's been extremely useful. When I look at a problem, I never think 'I have no experience of this'. I think 'Maybe my untainted perspective will be an advantage'. Many revolutions in science were started by a new kid who saw things differently despite (or because of) a lack of training. Arrogance is what's for dinner ( :

Haha, yeah, I'm a lot like that, although I don't know if I'd describe it as arrogance in myself, I just know from past experience what kinds of things I can and cannot pick up on quickly.

my confidence/arrogance says i can do anything if i try. #beexactlylikeme ( :

That's where it gets blurry. I believe that about most things I undertake, and thinking positive is great so it helps. It's not really arrogance I don't think though cause it's not like you're flaunting it to other people, you're just believing in your own abilities to get the job done.

agreed.

Arrogance, confidence to point of disregard of reality or others

That's a good way of putting it

Confidence is basically believing you can do something and arrogance is basically feeling superiority over others and that you are better than everyone else. In short, confidence= good, arrogance= bad.

Confidence means knowing that you are skilled in a particular discipline because of practice. Arrogance is a belief that you are better than the others without so much as to investigate whether s/he is your equal or not.

With that, I'll post a meme that is inspired by yours!

Cool!

Confidence is knowing you can do something, arrogance is saying you can do something

Alright, that's a good way of putting it

Thanks

A confident person knows the limits of their own abilities, but is aware of how good they still are. An arrogant person thinks they know. A confident person knows that no matter how good they are, they are still only a part of this world, an arrogant person would easily deem themselves "le roi soleil" (Louis XIV gave himself that name. Like in space everything goes around the sun, in France everything goes around me.... That was the thought behind it).

Of course when insulting a confident person and an arrogant person you may get defensive speech in return, and so people easily mix the two up. A confident person can still have dignity and underestimating them can damage that dignity. When you get into discussion with them a confident person knows they are better and an arrogant person thinks they are better. Yet (especially when the "battle" is fought on an public forum) a wise objective observer can tell the two apart, based on their argumentation.

A confident person knows that no matter how good they are, nobody owes their success on themselves. It's always the appreciation of others that make you successful, no matter how hard you work for it. If you have an election program that is foolproof to make your country an utopia, yet nobody votes for you, the plans will not be carried out. If you study to be a surgeon and no hospital offers you a job you're nowhere. If you have the talent to become the best actor, yet no film studio ever offers you a role, you'll never get a closet full of Oscars. A confident successful person will always appreciate that it were others who made them great. An arrogant person will not.

(Side note.... A confident person will if they are unsuccessful keep in mind others may to blame but also try to find out what errors they made themselves, and try to weight where it went wrong. Maybe there was nobody to blame at all, and was luck not on your side. An arrogant person will only blame others for failures and only credit themselves for success).

That was a very well thought out answer and I 100% agree