Quotes About Self-praise

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

Clever lies become matters of self-congratulation.

He even brags about his poops

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

No vice is more irksome than that of voicing one's virtues

I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Every man praises his own wares.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Some valuing those of their own side or mind, Still make themselves the measure of mankind: Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you.

I'll downplay myself before I compliment myself.

In Sweden it's not allowed to say good things about yourself.

You are so easily flattered, brother.' 'Because I have so many qualities to praise!

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

The trumpet of his own virtues.

The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Toad] got so puffed up with conceit that he made up a song as he walked in praise of himself, and sang it at the top of his voice, though there was no one to hear it but him. It was perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed.

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.