Best Cockiness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.”

Source: Healology

“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.”

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Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.”

“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?”

Friendship Worry Patience Certainty Uncertainty Lois Lane Cockiness Gwenda Bond Triple Threat Screwing Up Nosy Asking For Details

Book:Triple threat

Source: Triple threat

“Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

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

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Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).”

Source: Healology

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

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Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“Be a supernova of selflessness, not a casanova of cockiness.”

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Book:Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“He thinks he's God's gift to all mankind,' said Sir Owen, shortly. 'He's American,'....”

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Book:Birnam Wood

Source: Birnam Wood

“The difference between cockiness and confidence is to learn the definition of both by understanding how each can define us.”

Confidence Ego Arrogance Broms The Poet Cockiness

Book:Feast

Source: Feast

“Nobody, Nobody can be sure they're always right. The ones who are fullest of themselves that way Are the emptiest vessels.”

Correctness Being Right Cockiness

Book:The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

Source: The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

“Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.”

“Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.”

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Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“Thou has't all the symptoms of hubris but, alas, remaineth unw'rthy of the condition.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“Cockiness – the state subjective or intuitive state of self-assurance – is a sign of ignorance. Maturity comes with encountering the horrible and learning about what a person can withstand.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“I'm not a snob. I'm just better than everyone else.”

Snob Confidence And Attitude Cockiness

Book:Perfect Betrayal

Source: Perfect Betrayal

“To je bio divalj čovek. Meni je to lakrdijanje. Sva ta priča. Odakle se on pojavio? Kao da niko tada nije brinuo o tome. Neartikulisan. Pisao je polujasno, nebulozno. Kad, počeli su da mu pridaju pažnju. Sreli smo se, ko zna. On je znao, ja sam znao, da ta knjiga ništa ne valja. Bilo je komično, zaluđivali smo budale po gradovima i selima. Nije bili ničega, tekst je patio od nedorečenosti. Neverovatna tlapnja. Izučavao sam imena. Šta možeš kad se zoveš Srđan Srdić. Ne možeš ništa.”

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Book:Srebrna magla pada

Source: Srebrna magla pada

“When things go right, much can go wrong.”

Complacency Complacent Cocky Cockiness Caution Quotes Caution And Attitude Complacency Quotes

Book:The Path to a Meaningful Life

Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life

“It [boxing] helps my hand-eye coordination, my stamina, my footwork, and it gives me that competitive edge and drive. And in the ring it's mano-a-mano. So it helps you build that arrogance, that cockiness, that confidence in yourself that the man that stands in front of you isn't going to beat you, and that translates to the court.”

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Author:Carmelo Anthony

“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.”

Thinking Kind Shows Overconfidence Cockiness

Author:David Wright

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

Play Care Certain Games Winning Succeed Athlete Cockiness

Author:Arnold Palmer

“I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage I'm that confident and that cocky, because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.”

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Author:Russell Peters

“Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.”

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Author:Ann Landers

“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.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“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.”

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Author:Ann Landers

“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”

Inspirational Certain Certainty Uncertainty Sure Thing Cockiness Uncertainty Of Life

Author:Robert Burns

“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.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

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

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Author:Mila Kunis

“To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger on the field that says, "I can do this and you can't stop me." I know that I play baseball with this air of arrogance, but I think it's lacking in a lot of guys who could have the potential to be stars.”

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Author:Joe Morgan

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

Ignorance Seeds Cockiness

Book:The Loch

Source: The Loch

“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.”

Source: Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds

“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.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy