Quotes & Sayings About Misplaced Confidence

Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill) — David Baldacci

She preferred fear to misplaced confidence. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars. — Harper Lee

I've found that many of the people who have a passion for karaoke too often have misplaced confidence, which can become aggressive and border on sadistic. I know my limits, and karaoke is where I draw the line. I wouldn't put anyone through the hell of listening to me sing a song, and I sure as shit wouldn't wait in line to do it. — Chelsea Handler

It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced. — Anne Bronte

He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would venture to write a book about democracy without ever having read de Tocqueville, nor embark on a translation of Nietzsche with only a sketchy knowledge of German. — John Derbyshire

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced. — Winfield Scott