Boasting Quotes
86 quotes by 75 authors
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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
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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
— Emmet Fox
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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
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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
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Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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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
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I can never be what I ought to be untilĂ‚ you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
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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
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I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
— Patricia Moyes
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Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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
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I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.
— Lewis Thomas
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Boasting Quotes
75 authors contributed a total of 86 Boasting Quotes, led by these top contributors: