Quotes About Bragging About Yourself

#1. There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Johnny Unitas

#2. Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation.

Archibald Marwizi

#3. It's probably a pretty safe bet to stay away from anyone who brags about their skills in bed. They are typically only well versed in their own pleasure and who wants a dude like that anyway? No mystery, no class, and almost always: all talk. The Talker is a Regular Guy with a marketing plan.

Roberto Hogue

#4. Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

Chuck D

#5. He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense.

Barack Obama

#6. My dad (Ken Griffey) would have bopped me on the head when I was a kid if I came home bragging about what I did on the field. He only wanted to know what the team did.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#7. People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the music. It's less about bragging and more about being the best lyrically and poetically.

Nas

#8. We are puzzle pieces, bragging about being puzzle pieces, rather than being the picture.

Tom Althouse

#9. What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. There are all these people bragging about how they're survivors, as though that's something very special. But the only kind of person who can't say that is a corpse.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. Celebrate your victories! Be verbal about it. Haters will say you're bragging, but those who love you will celebrate with you.

Steve Maraboli

#12. Lambs think money and material things are the most important thing in the world. You can cheat, lie, steal, kill, be dumb as a rock, but if you can brag about money and having lots of things and your bragging is true, that bypasses everything. Money

Nnedi Okorafor

#13. Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion.

Bauvard

#14. I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#15. No professional Wall Street tipster or plausible promoter can turn a sane person into a stock gambler as easily as his next-door neighbor bragging about his winnings. If all men profited by experience, the world would be peopled exclusively by the wise....

Kenneth L. Fisher

#16. A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. Universities no longer spend as much time bragging about the size of their libraries. The

Seth Godin

#18. Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

Karen Salmansohn

#19. Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

Two Chainz

#20. In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors. Being number one isn't just about bragging rights. Often it means the difference between prospering and merely hanging on.

Mitt Romney

#21. Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

Will Rogers

#22. I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.

John Waters

#23. In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

Brad Pitt

#24. I don't go around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterward in seedy space-rangers bars, like some cops I could mention! I go around shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterward for hours to my girlfriend!

Douglas Adams

#25. Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#26. I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

Karl Marlantes

#27. The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

Gene Brown

#28. You must be Magnus Bane," the blonde said. "I've heard a lot about you from Simon."
"I can't blame him for bragging," said Magnus.

Cassandra Clare

#29. I want you to steal something."
I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you."
"If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated.
My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.

Megan Whalen Turner

#30. I'd hear guys bragging about their new Gulfstream IV or IV-SP, and then I'd get to say, "That's great, guys. Let me talk about my 747 . . ." It was a great conversation stopper.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#31. The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Criss Jami

#32. Bragging about winning porn awards is like showing mommy what you did in the toilet.

Tyler Knight

#33. Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law.

Alexander Viets Griswold

#34. I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.

David Lucero

#35. While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

Gaston Leroux

#36. We do not brag about ancestors that were not great

Bangambiki Habyarimana