An article my sister showed me while packing her stuff last night:

The difference between arrogance and confidence shows in our emotional state. Arrogance makes us insercure whereas confidence gives us peace of mind.

The more arrogant we become, the more keenly we feel the dependence of our happiness upon the misfortune and weakness of others. This ironic dependence makes the seeming confidence of the arrogant increasingly insecure. The more they bolster this false self-confidence on the outside, the less secure they become inside; so the "happiness" of the arrogant is self-consuming.

As mentioned earlier, confident people are deeply aware that they derive their confidence from strengthening their innate qualities and need not depend on others. So the more confident people are, the more peaceful they will be with both themselves and others. Even in disagreements or when pointing out the errors of others, confident people can remain calm and open-minded. Since they need not defend their self-worth by "winning" in the argument, confident people can stay focused on the merits of different views and opinions without becoming hurtful toward others..............

Think about how people behave at work. unlike an arrogant manager who takes any suggestion as a personal criticism and everyone in the office as a potential threat, a confident manager takes even personal criticism as an opportunity for self-reflection and further opportunity for self-reflection and further improvement.
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how freaking true.