Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise.

“Self-expansion in any form, whether through wealth or through virtue, is a process of conflict, causing antagonism and confusion.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no greater wealth than Virtue, and no greater loss than to forget it.

— Thiruvalluvar

“As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those…

— James Lee Burke

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

— Horace

“Uniting the many challenges to the commercial meritocratic ideal is a threefold plea, that we cease investing with moral connotations something as apparently haphazardly…

— Alain de Botton

“from self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged;”

— Lao Tzu

“I'm boasting of my...skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

— Owen D. Young

Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your…

— Criss Jami

“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy. They seem…

— Matthew B. Crawford

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.”

— Aman Jassal

“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

— Albert Payson Terhune