Boasting Quotes

86 quotes by 75 authors

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… — Russell Baker
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. — Emmet Fox
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable… — J. Michael Bishop
A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing… — Chin-Ning Chu
I can never be what I ought to be untilÂ you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and… — Wallace Stegner
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… — Jimmy Carter
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. — Patricia Moyes
Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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… — Barbara Jordan
I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting. — Lewis Thomas
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I answer, 'He is… — J C Ryle
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status ... — Stephen Harper
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it. — William Shakespeare
The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and… — Dalai Lama
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work,… — Gene Stratton-Porter
When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the… — Spencer W. Kimball

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