Cocky Quotes - Page 2

• Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Ignorance, Path

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

  Buddy Hackett

  Ninety Nine, Voice, People

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• I really don't believe in abortion. It's like killing a baby.

  Justin Bieber

  Baby, Believe, Abortion

  "Justin Bieber Talks Sex, Politics, Music and Puberty In New 'Rolling Stone' Cover Story". Rolling Stone Interview, www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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• Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Running, Loses

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2016

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• I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

  Aly Raisman

  Olympics, Right Now

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• It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.

  Cody Johnson

  Thinking, Littles, Wells

  Source: www.maroonweekly.com

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• Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Georgia, Domes, Like You

  Mary Lou Retton, David Bender (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, WaterBrook Press

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• It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!

  Richard Dawson

  Winning, Wonderful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?

  Dale Carnegie

  Future, Insecure, People

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• To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

  Tony Snow

  Faith, Believe, Heart

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• A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Children, School

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• I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  "A New Life, Album for Lisa Marie Presley". www.elle.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Be confident and not cocky.

  Ashley Roberts

  Be Confident

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• If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up.

  Drake

  Humble, Needs, Starting

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• Buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disc.

  Drake

  Humble, Buzz, Bragging

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• I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy
  Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.

  Lauryn Hill

  Block, Moxie, Cop

  "Song: 'Take It Easy'". 2005.

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

  Ann Landers

  Class, Auras, Cockiness

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• Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

  Alberto Salazar

  Careers, Training, Done

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• I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

  Vida Blue

  Baseball, Nice, Kids

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• I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want.

  Mischa Barton

  Guy, Want, Knows

  "Meet Mischa". Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. April 4, 2004.

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• The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it.

  Mark W. Clark

  Marine, Fighting, Pride

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• I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

  Shia LaBeouf

  School, Kids, White

  "Shia LaBeouf Sheds His Child Image for The Greatest Game Ever Played". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. September 30, 2005.

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• Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

  Eoin Colfer

  Confidence, Humorous, Ignorance

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.

  Christina Aguilera

  Beautiful, Feelings, Like You

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