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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
Boast quietly, with decorum.
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.
Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.
Those who boast are not respected.
Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging.
Get back, you scurvy braggart! Back, you rogue!
Victory does not always come with trumpet-blasts and glory.
If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do.
...those victories they boast were not the substantial joys of the happy, but the empty comforts of wretched men...
I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.
If you gotta label me, label me proud.
Crowds rarely cheer too loudly for the defeated, no matter how hard they fought, how great their sacrifices, how long the odds. Maidens might wet themselves over cheap and worthless victories, but they don't so much as blush for 'I did my best
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.
I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition.
A conqueror's victories are his medals, and his enemies are his trophies.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.
A man's rivals tell you how great he is.
Those who boast are seldom the great.
Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's little victories.
When heard someone's boasting,
I could smell shit of bull from afar.
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.
I feel like people who don't brag are trying to make you jealous by thinking they're hiding something more even exciting.
Reps, reps, reps
Someone who is self assured celebrates the accomplishments of others.
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To the crowd, success wears almost the features of true mastery, and the greatest dupe of this counterfeit talent is History.
Being an arrogant braggart just doesn't work for me. (Devyn) You should try it. It really does grow on you, trust me. (Adron)
Small things make base men proud.
Quantity brings recognition and accolades
calling something 'blessed' has become the go-to term for those who want to boast about an accomplishment while pretending to be humble," observes writer Jessica Bennett.[12]
It is important to recognize that reputation means nothing, and while past deeds might inspire confidence, they are no guarantee of present or future victory. I
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery
amputation at the neck.
Being Proud is Pleasing Your Weakness.
Not Strength.
It is Selfish.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Jos de Vries
September 11, 2016
The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
The proud man, then, is an extreme in respect of the greatness of his claims, but a mean in respect of the rightness of them; for he claims what is accordance with his merits, while the others go to excess or fall short.
Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
People are proud of their players.
strength and honor
Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.
They have something of which they are proud. What do they call it, that which makes them proud? Culture, they call it; it distinguishes them from the goatherds.
Celebrate Successes, but Don't Declare Victory
There are victories whose glory lies only in the fact that they are known to those who win them.
You're not even boasting about it."
"Should I?"
"You can't. You're too arrogant to boast.
Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk.
Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.
My pride is my comrades, my friends!
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.
Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.
All complaining comes from pride.
People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
There is a proud modesty in merit.
But the Warrior knows why he is celebrating. He is savoring the best gift that victory can bring: confidence. He celebrates yesterday's victory in order to gain more strength for tomorrow's battle.
You can't praise what you don't prize.
To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.
showing off is the fools's idea of glory.
We take pride in what we do.
For, of course, power is what Pride really enjoys: there is nothing makes a man feel so superior to others as being able to move them about like toy soldiers. What
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.
I don't know what anyone has to be proud of.
Pride is just a shout into the wind.
Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it.
Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride,
Pride invites you to soar to heights of personal triumph, but the wind is stronger at those heights and the footing, tentative. Farther, then, is the fall.
I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret ...
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Excess is success.
To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.
For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.
Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.
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.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Pride is what keeps us from celebrating what others have accomplished. Pride is what causes us to keep our mouths shut when we should be pouring on the praise.
You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.
Spare the conquered and confront the proud.
Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
WE WIN FABULOUS PRIZES
There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that 'this should not be so'.
Success breeds confidence.