Cocky Guy Quotes

#1. Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Henry Chester

#2. My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

John Lennon

#3. He folded his hands behind his back and puffed out his chest. Reminded Lucky of a barnyard rooster. Anybody who referred to Lucky as a cocky little bantam found out pretty soon that Lucky could back up his strut, and this guy was probably the roostah who used ta, or he wouldn't be teaching.

Eden Winters

#4. Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, blah, blah, blah. No need, though. Just try and think of me as a normal guy
-William

Gena Showalter

#5. And for so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. But this has never been an option because the Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made from our bodies.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#7. No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. The scariest, ugliest stories about in-home nursing usually are the result of nurses demonstrating a lack of professionalism, bad morals or a disregard for the child for whom they are providing care.

Charisse Montgomery

#9. Fallon smiled. 'We said we are going to try. You are declaring love and saying I'm not going anywhere.' Lucas shrugged his shoulders. 'I'm a confident, cocky kinda guy, I know what I want and I will succeed.

Toni Aleo

#10. Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

Melinda Gates

#11. I wish I could comfort all who suffer from the heart. Will you let me be your friend, and will you come to me for comfort if you need it?

Bram Stoker

#12. Do you dwell on everyone's junk when you meet them? Like, all you do all day long is think about dicks and janes? Is that your thing, Bailey? You can't stop thinking about what's in everyone's pants?

Brie Spangler

#13. Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

Criss Jami

#14. Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

Richard Brookhiser

#15. Addiction," I say simply. "It can span an entire lifetime if untreated."
"What's the treatment?"
"I don't really care."
"Me neither," she says.

Tarryn Fisher

#16. The artist must be ecstatic about something.

Ted Shawn

#17. He's more than just a good-looking guy and you know it. But, I thought, he doesn't have flashlight eyes or a cocky-bastard smile that can boil water or a voice from the heavens and most of all he says things like, It's only rock 'n' roll.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#18. One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."

Scott Raab

#19. Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

Jerry Spinelli

#20. Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.

Criss Jami

#21. We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

George Crook

#22. War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

Giles Duley