Boasting Quotes

When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

M. Ageyev

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?

Donna Lynn Hope

A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.

Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work.

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

Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.

Michael Bassey Johnson

He who traps mice should not boast to he who hunts lions.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion gains nothing from boasting to a dog.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A river cannot boast to a sea.

Matshona Dhliwayo

No job is complete until the selfie is posted.

Ashok Kallarakkal

Boasting is one of those rare outfits that never looks good on you but makes you look stunning when modeled by your admirers.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.

Anonymous

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide their insecurities behind a false persona of bravado, boasting of their inconsequential deeds, pyrrhic victories, and adamant refusals to tackle any task that they fear.

Kilroy J. Oldster

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

Some things sound better if they don't come from you.

Even the proud in all their boasting, must fall silent before the wise.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

I am not superior than anybody, don't say i am, else i won't defend you when you get caught.

Michael Bassey Johnson

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

William Shakespeare

True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion.

Bauvard

f you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.

Matshona Dhliwayo

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.

Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.

The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.

Donna Lynn Hope

So…we’ll start by boasting, will we? Just like old times! Very well, demigod.

Your boast does not take you in any place , But your love, YES.

Dariush Youkhaneh

How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

They call me, The Sharkalator

James Patterson

They call me, The Sharkalator

James Patterson

So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.

Taggle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank god, though at night, he recounted choice bits to Kate: "Rye Baro says I am a princeling; he split the leg bone for me so that I could eat the marrow. They love me. And I'm sure they'll keep you, too."Mira, she thought, and treasured it each time she heard it, They must keep me. Family.

Erin Bow

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.