Cocky Confidence Quotes

#1. Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you've made the best decision that you could.

Chip Heath

#2. I'm not cocky. I'm confident. It's a fine line, but there's a difference."

"Oh? And what's the difference?"

"It's simple. Confidence comes from knowing your skill and your worth while cocky attempts to cover the lack of both.

D.G. Whiskey

#3. But nothing is crueler than a coward, and the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. Why is it that self-confidence is so often cocky and self-assured so often selfish? Neither has to be true. Having confidence doesn't require being superior over another and being self-assured doesn't require taking advantage of another.

Charles F. Glassman

#5. I wasn't pissed off; I was just robbed of most of the cocky confidence my cunningness had created.

S.A. Tawks

#6. When people say, "Oh you're so cocky. You're so arrogant," I feel like they're telling me that I think too highly of myself. My question for them is: "Who are you to tell me that I need to think less of myself?

Ronda Rousey

#7. The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody

Clay Shirky

#8. Because it wasn't the looks that really made him sizzle; it was the pure sex that reeked from his pores, the cocky confidence that dominated every move, every touch.

Alessandra Torre

#9. Confidence is good, but when they hold their heads high like that, it just makes them look cocky and snobbish.

Grace Fiorre

#10. If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eight. No problem. I can do that anytime. That's not being cocky. That's confidence.

Patrick Ewing

#11. I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#12. To find the nectar of life, let me get lost in the mysteries and beauties of the imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way.

Anthony Liccione

#14. There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

Criss Jami

#15. She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

Tommy Manville

#16. Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Eoin Colfer

#17. Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan hasn't actually had an election.

Peter Schuyler

#18. He was a cocky devil. Lisbeth liked cocky devils, just as she detested pompous jerks. There was only a subtle difference.

Stieg Larsson

#19. Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Ann Landers

#20. [A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

Jacqueline Cochran