Confidence
Overview
Self-confidence
The socio-psychological concept of self-confidence relates to self-assuredness in one's personal judgment, ability, power, etc., sometimes manifested excessively.Being confident in yourself is infectious if you present yourself well, others will want to follow in your foot steps towards...
is having confidence in oneself. Arrogance or hubris
Hubris
Hubris , also hybris, means extreme haughtiness, pride or arrogance. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power....
in this comparison, is having unmerited confidenceābelieving something or someone is capable or correct when they are not. Overconfidence or presumptuousness is excessive belief in someone (or something) succeeding, without any regard for failure.
Quotations
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
Pierre Corneille, in Le Cid (1636)
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt, in Characteristics (1823)