Boast Quotes · Page 9

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

— Alexander Pope

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.

— Eliza Haywood

Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

— Nikki Sixx

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.”

— Joyce Rachelle

You don't intent to boast I believe, you are just selling yourself

— Thejin

Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their…

— Maurice Saatchi

Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an…

— William Shakespeare

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

— Alfred Adler

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

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is no need to boast of your accomplishments and what you can do. A great man is known, he needs no…

— CherLisa Biles

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

— Criss Jami

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a…

— Jimmy Carter

“Alas! Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings. If…

— Mary Shelley

“Sex is what you boast about when you have no exterior signs of wealth. It's a way of saying, "Look, I might…

— David Sedaris

There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own…

— Anonymous

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and…

— John Piper

Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those…

— Anonymous

I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say…

— Anonymous

“Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

— Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.

— Virgil

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

— Edward Young

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

— Evan Esar

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

— Gertrude Stein

He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

— Seneca the Younger

Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

— Anonymous

You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people…

— Adolf Hitler

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse…

— Peter Cooper

“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave Awaits alike the inevitable hour:…

— Thomas Gray

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end…

— John le Carre

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

— Cressida Cowell

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to…

— Anonymous

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr