Overestimate Quotes

• Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

  Wayne Dyer

  Relationship, Change, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 09, 2012

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• If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jun 29, 2014

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• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Gratitude, Achievement, Easy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

  Tim Ferriss

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Insecure

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

  Mario Puzo

  Enemy, Faults, Underestimate

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.310, Penguin

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• Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Life, Years

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• We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• "God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

  Julia Cameron

  God, Jesus, Giving

  "Finding Water". Book by Julia Cameron, 2006.

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• Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

  H. L. Mencken

  Race, Literature, Dignity

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• If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

  Tim Ferriss

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Insecure

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

  Mark Twain

  Beauty, Appreciation

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents, and Adventures as They Appeared to the Author”, p.546

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• Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

  Tony Robbins

  Appreciation, Time, Years

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Vanity, Underestimate

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• Never underestimate your power to change yourself.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Underestimate, Change Yourself, Power To Change

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.277, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Weakness and strength are necessary for balance. No one or nothing is only weak or only strong. But some of us overlook our weaknesses, and even deny that we have them. That can be dangerous, because denying there is a weakness is in itself a weakness. Likewise, accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a strength. And by the same token, overestimating strength is a weakness. You should not be blinded by your strengths. The feeling of strength is not the same as having strength. Neither should you ignore your weaknesses. Know them well, too.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Strength, Being Strong, Native American

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• Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Self, Grace, Sam Roth

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• Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiration, Acting, Action

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Choices, Decision

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

  Eric Hoffer

  Cutting, People, Size

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• I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.

  Billy Wilder

  School, Law, Class

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• We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Long, Underestimate, Periods

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• I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Believe, Differences

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• People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Two, People

  The Road Ahead "Afterword" (1996).

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• You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

  David Foster Wallace

  Life, Thinking, People

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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