Over Confidence Quotes

#1. What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

Len Deighton

#2. Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.

Joe R. Lansdale

#3. There's nothing sexier than confidence, and nothing dumber than over-confidence. Life is all about where you draw the line between the two.

Michael Makai

#4. Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton

Bruce Barton

#5. Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Cass Gilbert

#6. She oozes the kind of over-confidence that only comes to people who wear deep red lipstick and sparkly tissue sarees in bright daylight.

Aditi Mathur Kumar

#7. Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

Andrea Hirata

#8. When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.

Ian Macfarlane

#9. Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

James Corden

#11. There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

Alexander Kotov

#12. If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause

Jim Rohn

#13. South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

Jay Weatherill

#14. In terms of relationships, women often completely over-estimate the confidence of men, and forget about needing to feel validated.

Matthew Hussey

#15. If you don't have the confidence to fall head over heels in love, you don't have the right to love.

Kim Young-kwang

#16. There was a whole newfound confidence that came over me after having my son.

Ciara

#17. I think the main thing over time is that you gain confidence and are able to tell your story better and stronger.

Roksanda Ilincic

#18. Since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with

Anonymous

#19. When you're in film and you're in close, charisma in the eyes and confidence can take over. But when someone's sitting twenty rows back, you need the whole body. You need to be encompassed by an actor.

Alison Pill

#20. Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.

Anais Nin

#21. 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

#22. The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

Louis Farrakhan

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

Carly Rae Jepsen

#24. If you mean your words, people who lust over your lovely ways won't dare to reject you.

Auliq Ice

#25. Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be.

Auliq Ice

#26. There are reports that if Joe Biden runs for president, he would promise to serve for only one term - because nothing says confidence like promising your presidency would be over quickly.

Jimmy Fallon

#27. While the creative aspects of my filmmaking style are challenging in their own ways, I have developed such confidence and passion over the years that it has become much easier.

Jenni Olson

#28. I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

Lindsay Davenport

#29. When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?

Vishwas Chavan

#30. Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming to outdo yourself.

Lionel Suggs

#31. That's the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it's forced to flee.

Mandy Hale

#32. The children of our Lord walk gladly in his ways; they have confidence in him, and so when they fall, they rise again; and if, instead of stopping to grumble about the stone they have tripped over, they humble themselves at their fall, this helps them to advance with great strides in his love.

Vincent De Paul

#33. 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

#34. Whatever you say, say it with conviction

Mark Twain

#35. I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

Beth Ditto

#36. With Bruford, the album was One Of A Kind. All-instrumental, it possessed the kind of focused vision that allowed for no ifs or buts. With the unnerving confidence of youth, it had This Is What We Do And This Is How We Do It stamped all over it.

Bill Bruford

#37. Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.

Charles Lindbergh

#38. Not everything you believe that you can achieve, can be achieved but that won't stop you from trying.

Auliq Ice

#39. And I'm not sure if it's G-d, or fate, or just air masses colliding over water, but I will say this: It feels, finally, like flying.

Una LaMarche

#40. What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?

Ellen G. White

#41. Another possibility is that it really is just me lying to myself, but that lie will become truth over time. People all over this city feign confidence, and that becomes something concrete. You can become the mask you wear on a day-to-day basis.

Wildbow

#42. If you can't dream big, you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility.

Shannon L. Alder

#43. He stands at six foot two
oozes confidence and money
and something else sex
Hot, steamy, wild, rough sex.
The kind of sex that has you gripping at the sheets
as wave after wave of orgasm rolls over you.

J.C. Reed

#44. Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.

Bunker Roy

#45. [He] said don't let them take you over. Walk into the room knowing you are the best. Shoulders back, chin up. Their attitudes will totally change.

Misty Copeland

#46. Having total belief in your own efforts can't help much but can only be your best point of total failure.

Auliq Ice

#47. Look Fabian, the world is full of sheep, don't settle for being a sheep, even if you do reside over those creatures, act more like a Ram.

T.A. Uner

#48. The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

Dallas Willard

#49. Bend over backward, do a favor, and give and build confidence in people. It's a time to compliment, support and acknowledge the good things people do.

Erwin K. Thomas

#50. God knows the future. He knows how much we can take, and He knows exactly what we need. His faithfulness gives us confidence that He is ever watching over us for our good and for His own glory.

Jim Berg

#51. Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

William Hazlitt

#52. It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.

John George Nicolay

#53. Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

Alanis Morissette

#54. Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

Terry Bradshaw

#55. If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we'll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been.

Shannon L. Alder

#56. American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#57. I think my confidence has developed over the years, in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.

Olivia Wilde

#58. I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?' Like, everyone collectively decided, 'We're done!' Over time I got more confidence.

Ben Silbermann

#59. I wanted her to stretch her mind and her self-confidence, but I also wanted her to play with friends, read books, listen to music and glaze over with the pleasant boredom of a long afternoon with no place to be and nothing to do.

Quinn Cummings

#60. People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

Thomas Gilovich

#61. Confidence is something that has developed over time which is a very positive thing to gain. Respect is also very important, both giving it and receiving it from other drivers in your team.

Liz Halliday

#62. If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

Fridtjof Nansen

#63. You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

Chirlane McCray

#64. Courage creates and makes more wounds, but its good for the brave and not the strong ones without wisdom.

Auliq Ice

#65. Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#66. Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me.

Richie Norton

#67. I find it interesting when I look back at songs and it's what I've been thinking and feeling for the past two years. There's some sexual stuff in this record and I'm sometimes like, "Is that too far?" There's a confidence in it. It's over-sharing, but in a really therapeutic way.

Elena Tonra

#68. Confidence is when you stand over a shot and know you're going to make it because you've done it time and time again.

Jack Nicklaus

#69. Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you're wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.

Charlie Munger

#70. But I found in chess a very interesting game, especially the fact that a prisoner has total control over his pieces, which gives him some confidence back.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#71. I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross over and arrive on the safe side. There you would drink the strong waters and become addicted, perhaps demented - but a Reader.

Helen Bevington

#72. Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

James Wolfe

#73. I appreciate the confidence, Your Imperial Psychologist, but we're way beyond that. Cress if over me and ... it's for the best.

Marissa Meyer

#74. I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel.

John Biggins

#75. Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Harvey Weinstein

#76. I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act.

Julianne Hough

#77. Over Thinking can be extremely destructive, and may often be a sign of low confidence or low self-esteem.

Barbara Gain

#78. I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It's a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

Melina Marchetta

#79. Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#80. Over time, I've come to see that so much of a personality boils down to confidence: whether you have it, or not.

Harriet Lane

#81. The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin

Jonathan Haidt

#82. Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

Danny McBride

#83. A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.

Philip Kerr

#84. I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

David Neeleman

#85. Walk with purpose. Approach life with purpose, enter a room with purpose, and it's just a matter of time before people are coming over and talking to you.

Sharon Law Tucker

#86. If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps we should then bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new, something unknown, has entered us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#87. Your body can dictate your mind ... As I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence, my body take over my mind, and I become confident for real.

Georges St-Pierre

#88. True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#89. The crocodiles that frighten from crossing the rivers of our destinies are easily drowned with personal confidence but not team courage. It means you owe it to yourself to defeat your own crocodiles and cross over to the other side!

Israelmore Ayivor

#90. Courage drown by horses is hard to market, and makes more wounds.

Auliq Ice

#91. In a dazzling vote of confidence for form over substance, our culture fawns over the fleetingness of being "in love" while discounting the importance of loving. (206)

Thomas Lewis

#92. Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles that inhibit your progress but your confidence, and will to break the inertia of fear and doubt.

Douglas Smith

#93. Peaks are a process in which confidence is tested over and over before investors ultimately concede that they were suffering from "hopeful delusion.

Peter Atwater

#94. He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling.

Lauren Dane

#95. I'm quite proud of my rear ... I don't obsess over my flaws, because I see my body as a whole. Besides, I think men appreciate confidence more than perfection.

Shakira

#96. No matter what we might be walking through, we can still have confidence that Jesus is the God of the comeback and that our story is not over as long as Jesus is in it.

Louie Giglio

#97. I was struck dumb by his incredibly beautiful blue eyes, which shone like sapphires in the soft light of the torches. One look was all he needed to win over any woman. Everything about him oozed confidence, greatness, power, and sex appeal.

Sharlyn G. Branson

#98. Some people that appear to be so self-confident may in fact be very insecure.

Auliq Ice

#99. 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

#100. You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.

Celeste Ng