Underestimate Quotes

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Problem with an old friend who is too busy:
he always perceives you as if never changed.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I used to meet with one of my tutors here, back when my father still thought . . . The tutor had a lot of interesting stories. And I always liked the maps. Tracing the letters sometimes made it easier to . . . It's how I found the passage.
"You know, Wylan, one of these days I'm going to stop underestimating you."
There was a brief pause and then, somewhere ahead, he heard Wylan say, "Then you're going to be a lot harder to surprise.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Underestimate is the sign of getting fucked up.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Don't belittle anyone who you don't recognize.
Don't be fooled by anybody who underrates you.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Don't underestimate the power of a mind that is made up.”
― Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“Do not underestimate the muteness of a tree. The rustling leaves of it can sing with the rival wind that many of us cannot do.”
― Munia Khan

“He had underestimated me. All along. Even though I had not underestimated him. But, how do you love someone without blinding yourself? Don’t we all have to indulge each other, let our guard down, and -ever so slightly- lower ourselves, in order to love someone?”
― Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

“Crystal then read the red sticker out loud, "Dangerous, do not open." We both stared at each other for a moment. I was trying to figure out why a dumb book about power was dangerous”
― Dominic Tomasi

“Never underestimate the usefulness of temporary solutions.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Some people are mad at you because they made the mistake of underestimating you. They threw you under the bus and you survived.”
― Steve Maraboli

“No good ever comes from underestimating people...Take it from someone who knows.”
― Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

“Never underestimate your ability to underestimate yourself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The others will underestimate you,' he went on. 'Use that. It's a powerful weapon.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Do not underestimate the ‘power of underestimation’. They can’t stop you, if they don’t see you coming.”
― Izey Victoria Odiase, 99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development

“It is to our advantage to hate our opponent, but to our disadvantage to underestimate our opponent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Hating our opponent benefits us. Underestimating them benefits them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Never underestimate the power of the mind. Once you start using the power of positivity, you will see major changes in your life.”
― Dee Waldeck

“I would never be so foolish as to underestimate the power of evil. But neither would I underestimate the power of good as held against evil’s overestimation of itself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Do not underestimate or underappreciate 
The beauty and the power of the Blackness

With time, the sun, and the stars, will dissipate.
But still await and remain, everlastingly, the Darkness.”
― Ricardo Derose

“To overestimate myself is to make myself my own god. To underestimate myself is to make myself my own demon. And the curse of both is that they are one in the same.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t underestimate the mind and what it can do. You can develop a limitless way of thinking.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Don’t underestimate how far your stupidity can take you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To underestimate your God-given greatness is not humility; it's small faith”
― Somer Lofton

“You underestimate me, love.”
― Gloria Bottelman, Untethered

“To underestimate what you can do is to overestimate what you can’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough