Cockiness is the downfall of many who fail, however…

“Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared.…

— Ann Landers

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…

— Joe Morgan

“Along with the yearning that came from some deep part of her, that was selfless and exalted, Thea had a hard kind of cockiness,…

— Willa Cather

“The only thing that'll drive the cockiness out of me is you faking an orgasm. And I don't see that happening any time soon.”

— Samantha Young

“When things go right, much can go wrong.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

— Robert Burns

“Cockiness is useful to fake on occasion, but it'll only get you killed if you believe it.”

— Cassandra Rose Clarke

Suck my cockiness, lick my persuasion.

— Rihanna

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…

— Drew Brees

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…

— Rory McIlroy

Confidence is sexy Cockiness is not

— Anonymous

I never try to get ahead of myself because there's nothing that bothers me more than cockiness. I don't think that's necessary at all.

— Frances Tiafoe

It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough that I…

— Cole Sprouse