Over Confident Quotes

“We can never reach a stage where we can say, “I know everything, and I have nothing more left to learn.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Watson,' said he, 'if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.”
― Aurthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros

“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.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A know-it-all poses to know everything, so he will therefore tell you anything; although his brain forgets that one crucial thing, which is that other people, too, have brains.”
― Criss Jami

“You’re impossible,” I groaned, shoving against his shoulder.

“You mean unattainable.” He didn’t budge.

“You didn’t seem unattainable when you were begging me to kiss you.”

“I was being charitable. Where would people like you be without my generosity?”
― Jane Washington, A Dream of Embers

“Sir, this bad luck never leaves me, some people are just unlucky?

What happened?

I sowed the seed, watered & fertilized it on time, but what I reap is some wild fruit?

OK, so what's the problem?

I was expecting a Mango?

Did you examine the seed at the time of sowing?

No, I was reasonably confident of the seed, I observed someone using the similar seed.

Hence, you were so confident that you didn’t bother to cross check.

But had I checked, that person would have assumed me as an amateur?

It’s funny, you are not an expert, but you want to pretend as one, checking about a seed would have shown you a sincere person, remember, when we ask for help from someone it makes them responsible for us, but when they see us doing things wrong & still not asking, they take us as over-confident & arrogant, and everyone laughs at the failure of over-confident or arrogant people.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“Every stance unchallenged is positioned to boast on some victorious moral high ground.”
― Criss Jami

“Make an attempt, when you are unsure.
Rethink! when you are too sure.”
― PRRANAV