Top 40 Overconfident Quotes
#1. Even I make mistakes." I put on my brash, overconfident face. "I know it's hard to believe - kind of surprises me myself - but I guess it has to happen. It's probably some kind of karmic way to balance out the universe. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to have one person so full of awesomeness.
Richelle Mead
#2. I moved to the counter. A note was propped on the register. Welcome home, Ms. Lane. Arrogant, overconfident jackass.
Karen Marie Moning
#3. Many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. They apparently find cognitive effort at least mildly unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible.
Daniel Kahneman
#4. MBA students are not the only ones overconfident about their abilities. The "above average" effect is pervasive. Ninety percent of all drivers think they are above average behind the wheel,
Richard H. Thaler
#5. 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.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#6. When he makes mistakes, he's so focused on righting the wrong, and so overconfident about his ability to fix it all, that he loses sight of the big picture and ends up making things worse.
Jenn Bennett
#7. 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.
Richard Thaler
#8. I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine.
Jemaine Clement
#9. It may make him overconfident. He may make foolish errors.
Christie Golden
#10. The nerves are good ... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.
Myles Jury
#11. There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.
Kiele Sanchez
#12. 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.
Alberto Salazar
#13. She'd been feeling pleased with a couple of moves, had thought she was gaining the upper hand. But she'd been overconfident. She'd failed to notice his stealthy approach until he turned the tables on her with a move she hadn't expected and now she was fighting for her life.
Emily Arden
#14. The bat-and-ball problem is our first encounter with an observation that will be a recurrent theme of this book: many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions.
Daniel Kahneman
#15. People tend to be overconfident in their abilities, and the most overconfident also tend to be the least competent
Steven Gacovino
#16. People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.
Daniel Gilbert
#17. 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.
Jean Seberg
#18. Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
Daniel Kahneman
#19. You should not be too proud and accept help when it is offered, Lenora. Being overconfident will lead to your defeat if not careful
James Terzian
#20. What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though.
Robbie Williams
#21. overconfident individuals achieved higher social status, respect, and influence in groups.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#22. Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.
Andrew Lo
#23. Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
Tony Jaa
#24. 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.
Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart
#25. We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!
Joel Greenblatt
#26. The greatest triumph of Shaytan is the illusion that you are in control. He lurks on the forking paths, lying in wait for those who become overconfident and lose their way.
G. Willow Wilson
#28. People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.
Richard Thaler
#29. Almost everyone is overconfident
except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.
Joseph T. Hallinan
#30. Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
Nate Silver
#31. 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.
Neil Armstrong
#32. Do not grow overconfident following a few victories. Should you not rely upon the Holy Spirit you will soon be thrown once more into a distressing experience. With holy diligence you must cultivate an attitude of dependency.
Watchman Nee
#33. We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.
Daniel Kahneman
#34. I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours.
Amy Chua
#35. What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
#36. 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.
Roger Federer
#37. An overconfident enemy is prone to carelessness.
Anthony Ryan
#38. In life; when you expect good to happen, the bad happens and when you see the bad coming, then comes the good'
'Never be overconfident about your expectations
Peter Perry
#40. Twentysomethings who don't feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.
Meg Jay
