Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. — Malcolm Forbes
People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others. — Daniel Gilbert
Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. — Kurt Hahn
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults — Mario Puzo
Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry. — Larry Wall
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. — William Hazlitt
Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth. — Phil Heath
Confidence is always overconfidence. — Robert Byrne
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. — Tryon Edwards
I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder. — Jay Leno
If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened. — Robert M. Pirsig
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. — Charles Spurgeon
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. — Daniel Kahneman
Short Overrate Quotes
Being an adult is overrated. I refuse to grow up. — Lex Fridman
Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate — Al Pacino
Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated. — Ritchie Blackmore
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy. — George F. Kennan
Overrate Image Quotes
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
Love Is Overrated Quotes
You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs. — Sarah Dessen
Cool is overrated. Be a geek for what you Love — Bridgit Mendler
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything. — Margaret Mitchell
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion. — Quentin Crisp
Happiness Is Overrated Quotes
Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all. — Sayings
I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses. — Brad Pitt
I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other. — Brad Pitt
This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other. — Brad Pitt
I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling. — Mark Nepo
Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities. — Criss Jami
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion. — Sayings
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence. — Mordecai Richler
I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something. — Billy Connolly
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. — Sayings
Uggs. I think they're ugly. And I think big sunglasses are kind of overrated. I like big sunglasses but not those huge, round ones. — Justin Bieber
You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith. — Greg Behrendt
As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth. — Richard Posner
If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too.
I have no interest in living a balanced life.
I want a life of adventure. — Chris Guillebeau
Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing. — Karen Marie Moning
...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal. — Charles Spurgeon
I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. — Robyn Davidson
Being the hot girl... you wouldn't want that. It's overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I'd rather be... I'd rather be interesting. — Amelia Warner
Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut. — Wim Wenders
I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful. — Salvador Dali
To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair. — Tina Fey
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. — Stephen Colbert
Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy. — Huey Long
Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated. — Steve Perry
Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant. — Thom Yorke
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. — John Kenneth Galbraith
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship! — Mervyn Peake
Being queen is overrated. — Queen Rania of Jordan
All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them. — Harriet Martineau
Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV. — Ian Mckellen
Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most. — Barbara Corcoran
To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee. — Grant Achatz
Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable. — Albert Einstein
Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don’t mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss. — Jerry Spinelli
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