Quotes About Self Boasting

#1. Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Emmet Fox

#2. From self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged;

Lao-Tzu

#3. And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those who profess to know things of which they are ignorant.

Rene Descartes

#4. A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

Jimmy Carter

#5. Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

W. Graham Scroggie

#6. I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the reality that is most insightful to the issues at hand. Here are human beings, like us, boasting about atrocities that should be unimaginable.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#7. We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!

Steve Camp

#8. Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

Clara Shih

#9. Selling yourself does not mean boasting about your accomplishments but rather demonstrating security in your goals and your lifestyle so your "customers" feel success and want to emulate it

Joe Girard

#10. Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

Diogenes

#11. The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.

Erica Sehyun Song

#12. When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.

Ron Brackin

#13. A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.

Voltaire

#14. Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.

Keith Stanfield

#15. Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

John Steinbeck

#16. The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.

Douglas Dunn

#17. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

Jane Austen

#18. Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?"
"Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.

Cassandra Clare

#19. The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric.

Thornton Wilder

#20. Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#21. True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#22. This is why convicts take such pleasure in boasting and exaggerating their own unhappy personalities to the point of burlesque.
They find in boasting the one thing they long for - a semblance of life and liberty.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. 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

#24. Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.

Anonymous

#25. My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Russell Baker

#26. Ws 5:8 What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?

Various

#27. A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.

Denis Dutton

#28. We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

#29. When heard someone's boasting,
I could smell shit of bull from afar.

Toba Beta

#30. ...'at that time men began to call on the name of the Lord' (Genesis 4:26b) ... Seth and his line feared God and called on his name. Lamech, Cain's descendant, called only on his wives to hear his boasting (Genesis 4:23).

Samuel Ngewa

#31. Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise.

Lao-Tzu

#32. Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.

Dave Barry

#33. After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

Criss Jami

#34. 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

#35. Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

Mason Cooley

#36. If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

Bruce Lee

#37. When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

Criss Jami

#38. The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Gertrude Stein

#39. Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?"
"No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.

Cressida Cowell

#40. A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship.

Matshona Dhliwayo