Too Much Confidence Quotes

• Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

  Hubert Green

  Success, Confidence, Winning

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• Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

  Pierre Corneille

  Confidence, Too Much, Danger

  "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1636.

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• Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

  John Maeda

  Littles, Too Much, Inspiring Business

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2016

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• Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

  Arthur Eddington

  Too Much, Results, Theory

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• Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Believe

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, as translated by Luigi Ricci (1903), 1513.

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• As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect His strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to Him in whom our strength lies.

  Richard Sibbes

  Faith, Christian, Lying

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.105, Titus Books

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• We must know how to confide. There is the fear of God and the fear of a Judas. Too much fear makes one labour without love, and too much confidence prevents from considering the danger which we must overcome.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Overcoming, Too Much, Danger

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