Top 155 Underestimate Quotes

A lot of people who are ‘social media’ stars aren’t considered to be ‘real’ stars, and people underestimate the amount of work it takes to edit and upload a video every single day and document your life like that.
Shawn Mendes
Don’t underestimate the power of the Web.
Charlie Murphy
You cannot underestimate any team that has qualified for a semi-final.
Jupp Heynckes
Never underestimate or mock peace.
Boris Trajkovski
Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn’t underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can’t-afford-it attitude.
Martin Rees
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
Steven Pinker
Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.
Michael Morpurgo
It’s too easy to underestimate your audience. But it’s not rocket science: bad plays don’t get people on seats; good plays do.
Sarah Lancashire
Don’t underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It’s worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton.
Dita Von Teese
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates
Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other’s power – and underestimate their own.
Deborah Tannen
I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from ‘Unbroken’ is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
Finn Wittrock
Players can underestimate the Premier League.
Edgar Davids
People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
Salma Hayek
Never underestimate the power of anyone’s story… anyone’s life.
Abby Johnson
President Trump has a unique way of doing things different to his predecessors, but what I would say is that don’t underestimate his ability to take very intractable situations and shake the deck of cards and try and find a solution.
Jeremy Hunt
Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I’m nice, but I’m very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.
Missy Elliott
While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn’t unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.
Gary Hamel
I don’t underestimate anybody and I think Morales is capable of giving a good fight.
Marcos Maidana
If people want to say nasty things that’s a good thing in a way because it means people will underestimate me come fight night.
George Groves
It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Don’t underestimate the people. Let them decide.
Thaksin Shinawatra
People underestimate my speed. I’m pretty fast.
Trey Burke
Never underestimate how profoundly marked biceps and defined traps can improve your personal style, particularly if you spend as much time in a sleeveless shirt as Nate Thurmond.
Sean Evans
We’re really doing children a disservice when we underestimate what they’re capable of.
Kim Brooks
Never underestimate the power of a fresh coat of white paint.
Jeremiah Brent
I never underestimate anybody.
Lyoto Machida
The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.
Maria Konnikova
As a woman, I have tried to take advantage of the extra

As a woman, I have tried to take advantage of the extra access I have in the Muslim world: with Muslim women, for example. Many people underestimate women in that part of the world because, typically, they don’t work.
Lynsey Addario
I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
Hale Irwin
Venus’s life story across 5,000 years reminds us not to trivialise the power of desire: the ancients were right to never underestimate its influence.
Bettany Hughes
I actually believe we are the superior gender. Why are we superior? Statistically, we outlive men by a good 10 years. No one should underestimate the power of nagging – it’s on par with nuclear weapons.
Twinkle Khanna
Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term… If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that’s difficult to do.
Bill Maris
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry Adams
You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I’ve really learned to appreciate that.
Azim Premji
We underestimate children and the people who work with them. I swear – so often, I tell people I am a children’s author, and it’s like they want to pat me on the head: ‘Aw, isn’t that sweet.’
Kathi Appelt
Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.
Robert Winston
This feels like a new start for me because it is my first two-year deal, a long-term project in F1. People sometimes underestimate how important that is for a driver to perform. To have that confidence, that support, that mutual trust.
Carlos Sainz Jr.
Let’s not underestimate the European Union. You know what united Europe? Values. And that’s why I am absolutely sure about the unity of the European Union and its solidarity with Ukraine.
Petro Poroshenko
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
Arthur Scargill
I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.
Kathleen Turner
A lot of people underestimate Jake Shields, but his results speak for themselves. He’s tough to beat.
Demian Maia
Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
Randy Pausch
I never underestimate anybody.
Sage Northcutt
A film maker is a very intelligent man. Do not underestimate him.
Dev Anand
Whether they ‘lean into’ career, family, or both, let’s not underestimate the wisdom of women to define happiness and success for themselves.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
Ralph Regula
People underestimate the power of the root vegetable.
Christina Tosi
You cannot underestimate Zidane’s achievement of winning the Champions League three times in a row – it must have taken superb skills to motivate the likes of Ronaldo, Luka Modric, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema et al to have the desire to become serial Champions League winners.
Eniola Aluko
I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That’s why they spend so much money on propaganda. And that’s why they panic every time they feel like they’re losing the propaganda war.
Norman Finkelstein
I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
Hailey Gates
Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.
Jyoti Amge
I never underestimate the power of the American people.
Matt Gaetz
Do not underestimate the intelligence of our farmers. They are not part of the protests staged by the Congress, which is resorting to gimmicks such as burning tractors.
Anurag Thakur
On the one hand, I set my goals high, but on the other I do not underestimate our competitors either, who are using all their resources to challenge us. However, I also see what a fantastic job Sauber is doing and the progress we are constantly making.
Felipe Massa
People can underestimate you when you’re blonde and from Essex, but it’s easy to shut that down. I used to get dumb blonde jokes when I was 18, but when I replied that I was studying maths at Oxford, it usually shut them up.
Rachel Riley
Do not underestimate me. I believe that as a woman, a progressive, and a Minnesotan, I have a lot to contribute and I am so ready to do that work.
Tina Smith
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Tony Robbins
While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
Dan Ariely
We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but

We should never overestimate an audience’s culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.
Robert Lepage
I would say that engineering has been a very positive experience overall, but usually coming into the situation it would be one of being underestimated. People would actually have low expectations. But I would take advantage of it quite honestly, because I would take my time to underestimate the situation.
Lonnie Johnson
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it’s so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.
Marc Andreessen
You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.
Natalie Massenet
Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience.
Tom Rath
I think people tend to underestimate you when you have a Northern accent, for instance if you have to talk to the CEO of an international company. But then when I’m talking to someone in a factory, it’s just like being with my mum’s mates.
Steph McGovern