Bragging Boasting Quotes & Sayings

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

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's. — Plutarch

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. — Criss Jami

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

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

It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them. — Charles Spurgeon

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it. — Paulo Coelho

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

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

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. — Criss Jami

Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do. — Donna Lynn Hope

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

Even if you sell the same number of plasma televisions - if you are selling them for 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of the original price, your revenue goes down, and the profit goes with it. — Gerry Harvey

He was full of ironical admiration of his childishness and innocence in letting a wandering and characterless and scandalous American load him up with deceptions of so transparent a character that they ought not to have deceived the housecat. On the other hand, he was remorselessly severe upon me for beguiling him, by studied and discreditable artifice, into bragging and boasting about his poor game in the presence of a professional expert disguised in lies and frauds, who could empty more balls in billiard pockets in an hour than he could empty into a basket in a day. — Mark Twain

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I. — Jim Broadbent

You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage. — Soren Kierkegaard

The brain was the single thing that remained sacred among the Psy. To rewire that would equal the erasure of the individual, making the PsyNet a true hive mind. — Nalini Singh

One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. You have to learn how to talk to people and how to creatively achieve the same goals. I think it just hones your people skills. — Cat Deeley

I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle ... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing. — Flavor Flav

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired. — Robert Breault

Old lovers are like socks. They always show up full of static clean and missing their socks. — Paula Wall

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

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience. — T.F. Hodge