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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Going outside is highly overrated.

  Ernest Cline

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

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Television, Persons

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Answers, Uncomfortable, Grows

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2016

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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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• 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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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  Felix Dennis

  Crazy, Thinking, Ideas

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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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• 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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• My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.

  Tyler Cowen

  Views, Done, Way

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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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• No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

  Gena Showalter

  Long, Without Love, Worth Living

  "Unraveled". Book by Gena Showalter, 2010.

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• This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

  Brad Pitt

  Crazy, Dark, Ideas

  "The Many Revolutions of Brad Pitt" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

  Peter Thiel

  Fighting, Practice, Competition

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• Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

  Rihanna

  Being Single, Single Life, Life Is

  "Rihanna: 'Single Life Is Overrated'" by Phil Boucher, Liz Raftery, people.com. March 2, 2012.

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