33 Quotes About Boastful People

There are ways you can share your message without coming across as too boastful. Many people do not prefer those with small minds and big mouths. Here is a look at some great quotes about boastful people that are inspiring.

“A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.”

“A session of boasting won’t attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”

“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.”

“Are the accomplishments that people boast about real? Probably. But I’d rather hang out with real people, and real people don’t have to boast.”

“Boasting is one of those rare outfits that never looks good on you but makes you look stunning when modeled by your admirers.”

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

“Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.”

“By heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me.”

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

“Even the proud in all their boasting, must fall silent before the wise.”

“He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow.”

“How different would people act if they couldn’t show off on social media? Would they still do it?”

“I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels.”

“I have never consciously boasted myself but from hereon I make a point not to even unconsciously undermine or degrade myself!”

“If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”

“If pride really went before a fall, then, Lucifer is the inventor of pride.”

“I’m not sayin’ she’s a bragger, but if you’ve been to Paradise, she’s got a season ticket.”

“It’s better to find success through God, than finding it on one’s own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it’s with gratitude.”

“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”

“Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people.”

“Most people do kiss and tell; most of them just don’t tell many people.”

“Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure.”

“No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.”

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

“People are boastful because of who they are, where they are, what they do… that they are highly educated or professional or rich.”

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

“Since he was much weaker than his enemy, he could afford to display no weakness at all.”

“The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.”

“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.”

“There is no need to boast of your accomplishments and what you can do. A great man is known, he needs no introduction.”

“When focusing only on one’s credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.”

“When you claim to be what you’re not, you’re deliberately killing opportunities, because those who would have help will shun you, thinking that you had it all already.”

“When your success hovers from one person to the other, it will definitely get to someone who will regard it as failure.”

Being overconfident can help to attribute to many other negative qualities such as overconfidence and boasting.