boasting

True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor.

There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.

Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

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

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.

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

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.

Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.

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.

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.

So_we__l start by boasting, will we? Just like old times! Very well, demigod.

Your boast does not take you in any place , But your love, YES.

How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I__e really been doing is running?

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

They call me, The Sharkalator

So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.

When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.