Quotes About Cockiness

#1. I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style.

Anne-Marie Duff

#2. Does your cockiness have a dimmer switch or is it always set to 'high'?

R.S. Grey

#3. He walked as he'd learned to walk, with only a minimal limp, back straight, head held high in confidence rather than cockiness. He walked like a man who had learned to lean into God for whatever strenth he needed.

Robin Lee Hatcher

#4. Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.

Robin Olds

#5. I'm very confident in what I do, but I'd like to think I don't ever show any kind of cockiness or overconfidence.

David Wright

#6. I'll make you eat those words."
"You are very welcome to try," she whispered. Her attempt at cockiness had turned breathy and yearning. "Please, try very hard."
A smile lit his hard features. "Trust me, that will be entirely my pleasure.

Thea Harrison

#7. The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy. It was not his courage, it was not his engaging appearance, it was not--. There is no beating about the bush, for we know quite well what it was, and have got to tell. It was Peter's cockiness. This

J.M. Barrie

#8. He didn't have the loose-limbed cockiness of a man her age, springing to attention with the desire to impress everyone with his agility and form. No, the stranger moved with a languorous arrogance of a man more settled into his skin. A sort of graceful conceit that suggested entitlement.

Vivienne Lorret

#9. Not a facade of cockiness to hide deeper insecurities, but a true self-belief and measured evaluation of what she could and could not accomplish.

R.A. Salvatore

#10. Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

Steve Alten

#11. Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#12. Oh, the cockiness of youth. How I missed mine.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. The only thing that'll drive the cockiness out of me is you faking an orgasm. And I don't see that happening any time soon.

Samantha Young

#14. Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

Dan Hill

#15. I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness.

Drew Brees

#16. You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

Rory McIlroy

#17. Caia sighed. If this guy knew that he was in a room of lykans, two of which who looked as if they could happily rip him apart, the cockiness would soon dissolve and the peeing of the pants would commence.

Samantha Young

#18. When a woman is full of cockiness, I wonder what makes her so insecure.
When a man is full of ego, I wonder what he's holding onto.

Nikki Rowe

#19. He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.

Gillian Flynn

#20. Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

Mila Kunis

#21. I am older than you can dream, child. All things are easy to me."
Actually, I doubt that," I said. When there's nowhere left to run, take refuge in cockiness. "I dream some pretty old dreams.

Seanan McGuire

#22. Cockiness is useful to fake on occasion, but it'll only get you killed if you believe it.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#23. It's hard to believe someone who walks around commanding so much attention with his acute cockiness, hard muscles, and tattoos would ever let someone like me bring him to his knees-and make no mistake, I bring him to his knees. I bring him to his knees, hard.

Skyla Madi

#24. It's alright to have a good opinion of yourself, but we Americans are so smug with our cockiness, we somehow feel that just because we are Americans, we can whip our weight in wildcats.

Ernie Pyle

#25. An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.

Arnold Palmer

#26. Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

Jerry Saltz

#27. A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.

Criss Jami

#28. I should imagine that space-time as we now know it will hold no meaning for me at that stage of evolution. I'll be a chick magnet.

Brian Clevinger

#29. Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#30. 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

#31. Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.

Warren Eyster

#32. I'm not a snob. I'm just better than everyone else.

Season Vining

#33. You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

Honore De Balzac

#34. So, we are all in accord?" Savitar
"Yes. Dare is an asshole and nobody likes him, at all." Fury

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#35. The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.

Criss Jami

#36. Oh no. Maybe I'd gotten too cocky. I was still relatively new to this friend business. Had I screwed up even asking? Should I have waited for her to offer up details?

Gwenda Bond

#37. A tough man, usually ends up in prison, but a strong-minded man, will own the prison.

Anthony Liccione

#38. Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#39. There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Robert Burns