A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge - that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she might be. Robert Trivers
Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't. Laurell K. Hamilton
Overconfidence precedes carelessness. Toba Beta
People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence. Daniel Kahneman
Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is. Carol Tavris
Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others. Desmond Tutu
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. Malcolm Gladwell
Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure. Cass Gilbert
Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it. Toba Beta
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. Friedrich Nietzsche
Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities. Ziauddin Sardar
A certain death of an artist is overconfidence. Robin Trower
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. Bill Walsh
Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than. Nikki Sixx
Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom. Bion of Smyrna
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. Sivananda
Developing self-confidence is always the preliminary to becoming a leader. but don't let it become overconfidence, the first station on the track leading to arrogance. John Adair
Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity. Daniel Kahneman
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover. Helen Van Slyke
What begins in arrogance often ends in shame. Walter Russell Mead
Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others. Cherie Carter-Scott
The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead. Criss Jami
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Jack Welch
Wearing the armor of overconfidence is really toxic to our lives.
Confidence is good but overconfidence dismantles a career and relationship before one can rectify the damages
An overconfident person leaves no room for learning and improvement.
Egoistic and arrogancy are very subtle traits of a high-headed individual who either has a lot of money or holds high power in business, politics, sports, etc.
Jack Welch put it rightly, ‘Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.’
Never allow money, fame, and power to overpower so much that love, inner lightness, and a mentally tension-free life take a toss.
Best overconfidence Quotes and Sayings
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
– Bill Walsh
Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.
– Nikki Sixx
Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.
– Bion of Smyrna
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.
– Jack Welch
A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge – that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she might be.
– Robert Trivers
Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.
– Laurell K. Hamilton
Overconfidence precedes carelessness.
– Toba Beta
People exaggerate their confidence in their plans – something we call the planning fallacy. The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.
– Daniel Kahneman
Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.
– Carol Tavris
Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.
– Desmond Tutu
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.
– Malcolm Gladwell
Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.
– Cass Gilbert
Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.
– Toba Beta
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.
– Ziauddin Sardar
A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.
– Robin Trower
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
– Sivananda
Developing self-confidence is always the preliminary to becoming a leader. but don't let it become overconfidence, the first station on the track leading to arrogance.
– John Adair
Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.
– Ecumenical
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.
– Daniel Kahneman
– Helen Van Slyke
What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.
– Walter Russell Mead
Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.
– Cherie Carter-Scott
The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.
– Criss Jami
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Top 54 Quotes About Overconfidence
#1. Not cocky overconfidence
#2. Because if taken in excess, it causes giddiness, recklessness, and dangerous overconfidence
#3. As we neared the watering hole, I saw lions sprawled at the base of the acacia tree, relaxing in the shade. Many, many lions. If a group of lions is normally called a pride, then this was, at the very least, an overconfidence
#4. Overconfidence
#5. One of these days my overconfidence
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#7. Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence
#8. Overconfidence
#9. Both religiousness and lawlessness share the same problems: overconfidence
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#11. Successful gamblers - and successful forecasters of any kind - do not think of the future in terms of no-lose bets, unimpeachable theories, and infinitely precise measurements. These are the illusions of the sucker, the sirens of his overconfidence
#12. The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks. Carelessness and overconfidence
#13. The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence
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#16. A very disturbing feature of overconfidence
#17. Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence
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#19. Columbia Business School even has a term for it now. They call it "honest overconfidence
#20. Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence
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#22. CEOs of large firms often fail to read the handwriting on the wall, because of complacence, inertia, or overconfidence
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#24. Auguste preferred women. He told me I would grow into it. I told him that he could get heirs and I would read books. I was ... nine? Ten? I thought I was already grown up. The hazards of overconfidence
#25. Better not perceive yourselves too high, O humans.
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#27. Oversimplifying is the first grave mistake we make when confronted by complexity; overconfidence is the second. And there is a third: based on our overconfidence
#28. Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence
#29. To a winner, complacency and overconfidence
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#31. Overconfidence
#32. I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence
#33. Doubt is often better than overconfidence
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#36. If overconfidence
#37. Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence
#38. Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence
#39. A certain death of an artist is overconfidence
#40. People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy ... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence
#41. Overconfidence
#42. Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence
#43. Don't belittle anyone who you don't recognize.
#44. In Dune and Dune Messiah, he [Frank Herbert] was cautioning against pride and overconfidence
#45. You know, I can't stop thinking about you.
Oh really? Why you so obsessed about me?
#46. The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence
#47. Overconfidence
#48. 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
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#50. The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence
#51. Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence
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#53. There's a lot of overconfidence
#54. Overconfidence
Having excessive confidence can create biasness and interfere with sound judgement. These quotes on overconfidence capture the essence of overestimation and misjudgment of your value.
“Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of failure.”
“Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.”
“Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.”
“Do not grow overconfident following a few victories.”
“Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure.”
“Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Given that level of responsibility with your 25-year old or 35-year-old chef, it's just quite nice to see how they handled that exposure.”
“He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.””
“I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.”
“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.”
“I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.”
“I have a great record against anybody right now, so it doesn't really matter who I play in the final.”
“I really don't (stay calm) all the time. I just try to. Part of not just racing but in life, I try not to let the highs be too high and the lows be too low.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how your competitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.”
“Nerves are good. They keep you alive.”
“Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.”
“Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.”
“People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.”
“People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.”
“Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.”
“Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species.”
“The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.”
“The nerves are good… they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.”
“There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.”
“We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!”
“We live in a world of self-deprecation, and while it’s healthy to make fun of ourselves from time to time, it bothers me when I see women of all ages belittling their accomplishments because they don’t want to appear boastful or overconfident.”
“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.”
“We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.”
“What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive.”
Overconfidence has led to an onslaught of poor decisions. From creating an economic crisis to making negative choices in your own life, be weary of having to much confidence in your own life.
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