Over Confidence Quotes

• Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

  Cass Gilbert

  Matter, Structure

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• Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Leadership, Swim, Individuality

  Radio Times 9 July 1964

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• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Inspiring, Success

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• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

  Stan Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Confidence

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• Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Karma, Encouragement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

  Alexander Kotov

  Mistake, Congratulations, Self

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• Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Evil, Anxiety

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• I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

  James Corden

  Arrogance, Sometimes

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause

  Jim Rohn

  Ideas, Choices, Doubt

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• If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspiring, Graduation, Softball

  Jesse Jackson, Roger D. Hatch, Frank E. Watkins (1987). “Straight from the heart”, Fortress Pr

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• This is an industry [high fashion] that has an abundance of over-confidence. I don't think anyone would dispute that, and I'm not trying to pick on anybody, but that's just a fact, right? And sometimes that's fun.

  Jared Leto

  Fashion, Fun, Thinking

  "Jared Leto Talks Rebel Style, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, and Why He Hates Shopping". Interview with Megan Gustashaw, www.gq.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

  Andrea Hirata

  Writing, Fighting, Expectations

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• Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.

  John Locke

  Kindness, Errors, Mediocrity

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• You are valued more than you know, by more people than you think. It might be good to get in touch today with your true worth. It is much higher than you often give it credit for being -- and now is a perfect time to know, and to gently assert, that fact. This is not about arrogance and it is not about over confidence. It is about a simple, dignified Knowing.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Simple, Thinking, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 06, 2015

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• When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.

  Ian Macfarlane

  Confidence, Risk, Precaution

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• After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend

  Page Smith

  Men, Minutes, Lifelong

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• Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

  Douglas Bader

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Accelerated Learning in Practice". Book by Alistair Smith, p. 234, 1998.

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• Whatever you say, say it with conviction

  Mark Twain

  Conviction, Whatever You Say

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Confidence, Fine, Traits

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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• I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Fear, Might, Shows

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• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.187, Penguin

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• To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Life, Motivational, Sports

  FaceBook post by Jack Nicklaus from Jan 14, 2014

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• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

  Bruce Barton

  Change, Fear, Errors

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