When your self-importance is increased by the position [of authority] you are in, and this brings about arrogance or vanity in you, then look at the greatness of the authority of Allah and His power, the power which you do not even possess over yourself, for indeed this will mellow your recalcitrance, cure your vehemence and bring back to you that which had departed from you of your intellect
What has the son of Adam to do with conceit? His beginning is foul semen and his end is a rotting corpse, and in between these he is a carrier of waste products
المصدر : غرر الحكم ودرر الكلم
لَا وَحْشَةَ أَوْحَشُ مِنَ الْعُجْبِ
There is no alienation more desolating than conceit