Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai Copy Share Image
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.'… — Stelios Haji-Ioannou Copy Share Image
In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
You’re not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same,” said Will. “I discovered that fact while… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
