Overrated Quotes

• I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

  Jay Leno

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Littles

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• Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Morning, Kindness, Politeness

  "Me and Mr Jones". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2002.

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• Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

  Hildegard Knef

  Women, Memorable, Giving

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• I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, Law, Lasts

  "Stephen Colbert must be stopped!" by Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

  Deidre Hall

  Children, Thinking, World

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• I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Television, Persons

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• Going outside is highly overrated.

  Ernest Cline

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• Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

  Irving Stone

  World, Misery, Worth Fighting For

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• Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high.

  Alexander Khalifman

  Player, Thinking, People

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• Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

  Al McGuire

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

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• Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Modesty, Virtue, Economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith, J. Ron Stanfield, Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield (2004). “Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith”, p.197, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Believe, Animal

  "Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Holier Than Thou)". TV Series, May 23, 2005.

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• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

  Anthony Burgess

  Rome, Cities, Atheism

  1963 Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.1.

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• I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Vampire Diaries, Painful, Been In Love

  "Fictional character: Damon Salvatore". TV Series "The Vampire Diaries" ("Lost Girls", 2009), www.imdb.com. 2009-2017.

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• Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

  Huey Long

  Funny, Work, Umpires

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• This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Art, Cases, Taxi

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.170, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Branding is overrated.

  Regis McKenna

  Branding

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• I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

  Brad Pitt

  Thinking, Goal, Would Be

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• It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this writer could not possibly like that one, would indeed consider him a menace. Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Reading, Passion, Envy

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Reading, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Artist, Way, Needs

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• Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

  Beth Gibbons

  Art, Insecurity, Suffering

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• I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Queens, Sex, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.

  Rick Warren

  Integrity, Humble, Humility

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