Top 26 Cocksure Quotes
#1. Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.
Ferdinand Mount
#2. I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
Ben Affleck
#3. Education is the process of turning cocksure ignorance into thoughtful uncertainty.
K. G. Johnson
#4. That's when Georgie decided, during that cocksure kiss, that Neal was what she needed to be happy.
Rainbow Rowell
#5. I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.
Kat Duff
#6. Like Che Guevara, he'd appear wearing his beret, his pointed beard with the drooping mustache, and the cocksure swagger of someone who has just planted dynamite all over Cambridge and couldn't wait to trigger the fuse, but not before coffee and a croissant.
Andre Aciman
#7. The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
#8. The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
Bayard Taylor
#9. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
#10. We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
William Butler Yeats
#11. His eyes moved over me, but hovered mostly on my face. That was almost worse. Who am I without this? I thought. Without the seduction I wear like armor, without my bravado and cocksure confidence? Am I really just a little girl under it all?
Leah Raeder
#13. One mustn't be so cocksure, Joker says. Bad habit, he repeats.
Jostein Gaarder
#14. He's me, Jaime realized suddenly. I am speaking to myself, as I was, all cocksure arrogance and empty chivalry. This is what it does to you, to be too good too young.
Anonymous
#15. Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#16. Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.
Mason Cooley
#17. I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt
Darynda Jones
#18. All people who worship Allah, not each other, are equal before Him. We are entrusted to spread this message and to extend that call to all the people.
Osama Bin Laden
#19. She wanted to smack the cocksure grin right off his face.
Denise Hunter
#20. Those cocksure perfumers reside in abstraction town just next to virtual-ville which is located within counterfeit county in the state of reduction set inside their anything-goes-if-you-can-get-away-with-it world which exists as a mere speck in the nothing-matters-anyway universe.
A.S. Reisfield
#21. The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
Harry Wong
#22. We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.
Robin Ince
#23. I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
Lord Melbourne
#24. The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
B.C. Forbes
#25. When we settled in to eat, Susan said, "So, tell me about it." "You shrinks are always so cocksure," I said. "Nice word choice," Susan said. "In the current context.
Robert B. Parker
#26. We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
Buffalo Bill