Quotes Tagged "boast"

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.

When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.

Every generation is undersupplied with people who publicize their failures but hide their successes, and oversupplied with those who do the opposite.

Some of the people who are showing off their speed are headed in the wrong direction.

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

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

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

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

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.