Quotes About Overconfidence

'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

Reason is still our signature tool for coping with a complex reality, yet it is easily subverted by overconfidence, cognitive closure, and biases.

Getting up to Zaire - getting ready to fight Muhammad Ali - I thought this will be a matter of just a little exercise. I'll probably knock him out in three rounds. Two, three - maybe three and a half rounds. That was the most confidence I had in my whole life.

Overconfidence leads to carelessness, which leads just as surely to disaster.

Thus it happens that those who have force on loan from fate count on it too much and are destroyed.

Self-confidence is a feeling of trust or confidence in one's own abilities, qualities, skills, intellect, brain, strenght, character and stuffs like that. Now listen up, you should be self-confident. But, never become overconfident i.e. never become excessively confident. For, your ability, quality, skill, intellect, brain, strenght or a stuff like that can fail or disappoint you even when you least expect it or rather when you need it most.

Self-confidence/assurance is a feeling of trust or confidence in one's abilities, qualities, skills, intellect, brain, strenght, character and stuffs like that. Now listen up, you should be self-confident/assured. But, never be overconfident/assured i.e. never be excessively confident or assured. For, your ability/quality/skill/intellect/brain/strenght or a stuff like that can fail or disappoint you even when you least expect it or rather when you need it most.

Something about all that power seemed to make the assholes who wielded it believe they were invulnerable.

I used to think nobody can beat me, and then Tim Sylvia beat me twice.

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

To fly too high and fall, to go too deep and get stuck, these are alike symptoms of an overvaluation of the ego that ends in disaster, death, or madness.

Success has ruined many a man.

The big problem with omnipotence is that it leads so easily to overconfidence….

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

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

Social psychologists have found that we are overconfident, sometimes to the point of delusion, about our ability to infer what other people think, even the people who are closest to us.27 Only when we ask those people do we discover that what's obvious to us isn't obvious to them. That's why professional writers have editors.