William Shenstone Quotes

I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

He certainly does not lack self-confidence – in fact if he had a little less he might think a little more before he acts & speaks. One cannot help being fascinated by him, although I cannot bring myself to like him.

In international affairs, you pay for cockiness.

Ignorance and confidence is a lethal cocktail.

I trust my arm, maybe a little too much.

Back during my VJ days, I was overconfident as I was on television and was earning money very early in life.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.

The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.

Ignorance makes you very bold.

When you're young, you're cocky.

When you are too confident, that's when you hurt yourself.

I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

There's no such thing as too much confidence.

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.