Quotes about Overconfidence

Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

Remember that a man may be mistaken on this subject, but yet be a holy child of God. It is not the slumbering on this subject that ruins souls, but the lack of grace! Above all, avoid dogmatism and overconfidence, especially when dealing with symbolic prophecy. It is a sad truth, but a truth never to be forgotten, that none have injured the doctrine of the second coming more than its overzealous friends.

There is nothing I dislike so much in prophetic inquiry as dogmatism or overconfidence. Much of the discredit that has fallen on prophetic study has arisen from the fact that many students, instead of expounding prophecy, have turned into prophets themselves.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose.

If pride is what goes before a fall, the shame is what keeps you from getting up after one.

I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.

El orgullo viene delante de la destrucción y un espÃ

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.