Boast Quotes

“When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

“Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."
Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.”
― Markesa Yeager

“Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, then you’re seeking the wrong kind of people for it has nothing to do with who you are and everything to do with what you do. Is that the kind of people you want? The ones who are more attracted to your status than you?”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“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, Leaders' Ladder

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“[His] modesty... reminded me of the trees that bend low with the burden of ripening fruits; it is the barren tree that lifts its head high in an empty boast.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“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

“If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“Some of the people who are showing off their speed are headed in the wrong direction.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Maybe less you have, the more you are required to boast.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Most people do kiss and tell; most of them just don’t tell many people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Why should you boast? You are not saved by your works but by the grace of God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“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

“Swankiness get noticed but style get remembered.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The only thing, the sole thing I am proud of , is
book reading; rest is just absurd paraphrasing.”
― Teufel Damon

“A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.”
― Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love

“Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Amilyen ősi, oly biztos e tapasztalat: mondd meg, mivel dicsekszel, s én megmondom, mi hiányzik leginkább belőled.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that’s the job of vision.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Every generation is undersupplied with people who publicize their failures but hide their successes, and oversupplied with those who do the opposite.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Leave the boasting for post-game. Let your performance prove the point, remember - one unsatisfactory performance is having a bad day, but the regular low performances reflects: flaw in the technique, emotional immunity to loss or a lack of desire to win. Enough for dragging the entire team down”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“When Grace has found you, you will not boast about it, but Glorify God for it.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Don't boast on your existence,
It is death who is giving you respite.”
― Snehashish Biswas

“You can’t just go in swingin’ these days. You’ve got to have smarts. Me and Iyarra? We’ve got brains we ain’t even used yet.”
― K.L. Mitchell, The Road to Kalazad

“If a man boast of his attractiveness, he is unattractive.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov