Boast Quotes

323 Boast quotes by 249 unique authors

Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For… — John Cassian
...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even if we boast… — John Cassian
I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that. I don't… — Leona Lewis
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark… — King Hussein I
Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and… — Piers Morgan
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in… — Francis Darwin
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to… — Xunzi
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to… — Edward Everett Hale
Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in… — Ayn Rand
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson
A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut… — Mao Zedong
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know… — Edward Forbes
Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One… — John Kessel
In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound an effect on… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! — Jules Verne
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast. — Bertrand Russell
We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To… — Henry David Thoreau
England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of… — Charles Churchill
Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it. — Joe Abercrombie
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
Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself. — Rabindranath Tagore
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on,… — Louis Kronenberger
The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity;… — Thomas Carlyle

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