Boast Quotes
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“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.”
― Rights of Man
― 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.”
― A Dance with Dragons
Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.”
― 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.”
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“When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.”
― Killosophy
― 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?”
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“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.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.”
― Leaders' Ladder
― Leaders' Ladder
“[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.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.”
― Healology
― 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?”
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“If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving.”
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“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.”
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“The only thing, the sole thing I am proud of , is
book reading; rest is just absurd paraphrasing.”
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book reading; rest is just absurd paraphrasing.”
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“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.”
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“Amilyen ősi, oly biztos e tapasztalat: mondd meg, mivel dicsekszel, s én megmondom, mi hiányzik leginkább belőled.”
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“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.”
― Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
― 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.”
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“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”
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“When Grace has found you, you will not boast about it, but Glorify God for it.”
― Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
― Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“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.”
― The Road to Kalazad
― The Road to Kalazad
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