Cockiness Quotes

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

  Mila Kunis

  Life, Knowing Who You Are, Pushing It

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

  Steve Alten

  Ignorance, Seeds

  Steve Alten (2010). “The Loch”, p.14, Macmillan

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

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

  Ann Landers

  Cocky, Class, Auras

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Athlete, Winning, Games

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• 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.

  Jerry Saltz

  Caves, Suave, Cave Paintings

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• There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

  Robert Burns

  Inspirational, Uncertainty Of Life, Sure Thing

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• I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness

  Drew Brees

  Swagger, Moments, Modest

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• 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.

  David Wright

  Thinking, Kind, Overconfidence

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• 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.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Believe In Yourself, Leaving

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• 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.

  Russell Peters

  Real, Mistake, Cocky

  "The famous comedian most Americans don't know". Interview with Alicia W. Stewart, www.cnn.com. October 16, 2013.

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• 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.

  Joe Morgan

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• 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.

  Robin Olds

  Attitude, Eye, Self Confidence

  Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus, Robin Olds (2010). “Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds”, p.291, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Eye, Men, Hands

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Men, Devil

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