Bragging Quotes

• It's not bragging if you can back it up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Fighting, Greatness

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2011

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• Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

  Bill Maher

  Liars, Government, People

  Bill Maher (2003). “When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism”, New Millenium

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• If you done it, it ain't bragging.

  Walt Whitman

  Conceited, Done, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

  William Shakespeare

  Ass, Found, Braggarts

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.71

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• There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

  Johnny Unitas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• Bragging often precedes begging.

  B. C. Forbes

  Begging

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• The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

  Gene Brown

  Humility, Tough, Brag

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

  Will Rogers

  Lying, Age, Aging

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• There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

  Curt Flood

  Lying, Telling The Truth

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• A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Praise, Belittle, Persons

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• Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

  John Steinbeck

  Gloating, Brag, Boast

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• Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

  Ann Landers

  Home, Men, Big Fish

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• I don't fight for bragging rights. I've proved myself.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, Fighting, Rights

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• Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

  Ellen G. White

  Men, Best Effort, Praise

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• It ain't bragging if you can do it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Can Do, Ifs, You Can Do It

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  In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

  Brad Pitt

  Missouri, Ifs, Just Do It

  "Brad Pitt on Gay Marriage, Smoking Pot and 'Real Love'" by Dotson Rader, parade.com. August 5, 2009.

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• There is a difference between conceit and confidence.

  Johnny Unitas

  Differences, Conceit, Brag

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• If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Knowing, Rate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

  Baltasar Gracian

  People, Expectations, Each Day

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• Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

  P. M. Forni

  Self Esteem, Eye, Ladders

  P. M. Forni (2010). “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

  Ann Landers

  Home, Men, Sea

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• 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.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mean, Benefits, Literature

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• You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

  Frank McCourt

  Giving, Would Be, Credit

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humanity, Literature, Becoming

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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