Best Overconfident Quotes

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The nerves are good… they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Almost everyone’s instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

We’re generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn’t terribly large.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

He was overconfident, she told him. And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works. You won because you were good he corrected her. I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.

I have a great record against anybody right now, so it doesn’t really matter who I play in the final. I’ll be in there as the big favorite. But I play my best in the finals, in the important matches. That’s why I’m number one. There’s no secret…I’m not overconfident, but very confident.

I think the people who’ve been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.

People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.

We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am overconfident. I look petulant when I stand my ground.

I really don’t (stay calm) all the time. I just try to. Part of not just racing but in life, I try not to let the highs be too high and the lows be too low. I try to stay somewhere right in the middle. In racing it’s not always easy to do. You can get too excited or overconfident when things are going good and it’s easy to get too far in the ditch when things are going bad.

There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn’t know it. I hate men who are overconfident.

We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

I’m unapologetic not because I’m strong-willed or overconfident, I’m unapologetic because this is it; this is my life. There is nothing I can do, no one I can please. I am a person with a strong sense of being, that’s all.

Let’s not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

Given that level of responsibility with your 25-year old or 35-year-old chef, it’s just quite nice to see how they handled that exposure. Not every chef deals with it properly; they get slightly excited, a little bit overconfident and then they miss out on the most important part.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success…whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.

I come from an overly confident place. But I’m overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn’t see any other reason to say otherwise.