Cockiness Quotes

“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.”
― Ann Landers

“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
― Robert Burns, Collected Poems of Robert Burns

“A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“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.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“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.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.”
― Steve Alten, The Loch

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

“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.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“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.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Cockiness is useful to fake on occasion, but it'll only get you killed if you believe it.”
― Cassandra Rose Clarke, The Assassin's Curse

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

“Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I'm not a snob. I'm just better than everyone else.”
― Season Vining, Perfect Betrayal

“I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Nobody,
Nobody can be sure they're always right.
The ones who are fullest of themselves that way
Are the emptiest vessels.”
― Seamus Heaney, The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

“Along with the yearning that came from some deep part of her, that was selfless and exalted, Thea had a hard kind of cockiness, a determination to get ahead. Well, there are passages in life when that fierce, stubborn self-assertion will stand its ground after the nobler feeling is overwhelmed and beaten under.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

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

“You're seeing yourself as having missed the target already. That's your fear. That's hurting you. But then you got yourself seeing all your shots being bulls eyes. That's your confidence. It's making you cocky. It's making you think you're infallible. See? That's hurting you too. Don't think of yourself as already defeated. Don't think of yourself as already won. Just concentrate on what you're doing. Think about now.”
― Ben Willoughby, Gods on the Mountain

“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

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

“I should imagine that space-time as we now know it will hold no meaning for me at that stage of evolution. I'll be a chick magnet.”
― Brian Clevinger, 8-Bit Theater

“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?”
― Gwenda Bond, Triple Threat

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

“Be a supernova of selflessness, not a casanova of cockiness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“When things go right, much can go wrong.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“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.”
― Srđan Srdić, Srebrna magla pada