Top 72 Do Not Boast Quotes
#1. Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
Antoine Rivarol
#2. Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
Lao-Tzu
#3. I never prophesy," he declared pompously. "It is true that I have the habit of being always right - but I do not boast of it.
Agatha Christie
#4. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such 'wisdom' does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice" (James 3:14
Craig Groeschel
#5. Do not boast about tomorrow, y for you do not know what a day may bring.
Anonymous
#6. Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. To your simple existence, do not boast;
merely to breathe or move or think is not to live.
The shore of the sea is but a ghost,
compared to the depth its wholeness gives.
You exist in the miry foam;
make the ocean depths your home.
Craig Froman
#8. I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
Abraham Lincoln
#9. Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn't true. It is an idle boast. As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly.
Michael Crichton
#10. Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.
Mason Cooley
#11. Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
Samuel Johnson
#12. No one on the planet is richer than God;
He does not boast of riches He cannot give.
No one on the planet is wiser than God;
God does not boast of wisdom He does not possess.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#13. I am afraid I shall have to give up my trade; I am far too inert to keep up with organic chemistry, it is becoming too much for me, though I may boast of having contributed something to its development. The modern system of formulae is to me quite repulsive.
Friedrich Wohler
#14. The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
Arthur Helps
#15. Being a Christian ... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.
Patrick Henry
#16. Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.
J.K. Rowling
#17. Those who boast are not respected.
Laozi
#18. Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.
Eliza Haywood
#19. All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.
Michael Drayton
#20. We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#21. We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary.
Steve Toltz
#22. When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
Criss Jami
#23. The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies.
Oscar Wilde
#24. It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we boast of the continual decrease in human participation in technical operations.
Jacques Ellul
#25. Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
Horatio Nelson
#27. It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity ...
Corra May Harris
#28. There were no ideas in music, only touch and instinct and sometimes grace - the mechanical tools - and that among those who were given the tools, only a few, a scant few, would be able to tell you something true.
Will Boast
#29. The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.
John Buchan
#30. Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
John Milton
#31. You do not know how the people of this country bear malice. It is the boast of some of them that they can keep a stone in their pocket seven years, turn it at the end of that time, keep it seven years longer, and hurl it and hit their mark at last.
Charlotte Bronte
#32. You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon
#33. What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Various
#34. You don't love people for what they can give you. You don't love them because of what they do for you or how good you make them look. Love is blind, love does not boast, love is not vain.
Shelly Crane
#35. If you have not seen the real end of the journey, don't boast much at the beginning and never be too proud and haughty in mid of the path. Keep the real end in mind and mind how to get to the real end successfully!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#36. A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.
Thomas F. Wilson
#37. Some people talk a lot about - even boast of - the Spirit, but their lives do not bear His fruit. Others
Francis Chan
#38. Forbear, you things
That stand upon the pinnacles of state,
To boast your slippery height! when you do fall,
You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise:
And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
Ben Jonson
#41. One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,
ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us.
Okakura Kakuzo
#43. Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#44. My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight.
Richard Elman
#45. Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work.
Eraldo Banovac
#46. The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
Oscar Wilde
#47. First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
Thomas Watson
#48. The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#50. Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
John Hancock
#51. Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.
John Gay
#52. Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories.
Thomas Young
#53. We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#54. If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?
Brigham Young
#55. I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.
Kingsley Martin
#56. Don't judge me by a little thing like this. In little things, I am a little thing myself - I always was. But in great things, I hope not; I don't mean to boast, but I hope not!
Charles Dickens
#57. I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.
John Mackey
#58. We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#59. Feel these muscles and understand how they boast the truth!
Hiromu Arakawa
#60. Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.
Maurice Saatchi
#61. Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.
Edward Gibbon
#62. C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most!
Mrs. Ernest Ames
#63. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
Pericles
#64. Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
Thomas Moore
#65. calling something 'blessed' has become the go-to term for those who want to boast about an accomplishment while pretending to be humble," observes writer Jessica Bennett.[12]
John Ortberg
#66. Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Isaac Watts
#67. I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.
Joyce Carol Oates
#68. Tip #4
Skinny-dip at will!
(Idea)
When single boast about finding your inner most happy place and hold on to it Odds are once married you can kiss personal space Good-Bye.
Hazel Cartwright
#69. Love is not proud. Love does not boast. Love, after all, matters the most. Love does not run. Love does not hide. Love does not keep locked inside. Love is the river that flows through. Love never fails you.
Brandon Heath
#70. Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson
#71. Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.
David Hewson
#72. No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.
Herbert Spencer
