Quotes About Self-praise

Thus, BAD. The United States especially overflows with it because of all countries it is the most addicted to self-praise and complacency - even more than France.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back, Beldin said sourly.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Just because you say you are great doesn't mean you are.

The fool doesn't think anything well done except what he did or what he is doing.

I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

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

But most of all, I'd like to thank me. Without me, none of this would have been possible. I really did a bang-up job on this book, and I deserve all the credit. I hereby revoke all the gratitude I expressed above and keep it for myself.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.