{"quotes":[{"text":"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.","author":"Miguel de Cervantes","tags":["hold","him","brag "],"id":1867,"author_id":"Miguel+de+Cervantes"},{"text":"REAL people do not have to lie, exaggerate, or brag for they are self-contained in self-understanding and acceptance of themselves. REAL people can make a mistake knowing that even when they do, it is only a mistake and just because the outcome was not to their liking, they know…THEY are not a mistake. REAL have the attitude this is who I am…and I am good enough, right now…just as I am. People who have chosen REAL have already clicked their heals together and returned home.","author":"David W. Earle","tags":["acceptence","brag","change","chaos","conflict","dysfunctional","family","love","real","self-esttem","trust"],"id":66021,"author_id":"David+W.+Earle"},{"text":"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.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","best","boast","boasting","brag","bragging","choice","choosing","deceived","deception","doors","fooled","opportunities","stupid","stupidity","unobstructed","wisdom","wise","worst"],"id":76706,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["boast","brag","bragging","climb","climb-up","climbing","fail","failure","food-for-thought","hills","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","mountains","people","person","personal-development","pride","proud","push-him-down","self-improvement","shoe","shoes","slipper","slippers","slippery","success","successful","valley"],"id":147970,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki-habyarimana","brag","braggart","bragging","charity","charity","charity","morality","self","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom"],"id":156609,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.","author":"Richard Paul Evans","tags":["battle","boast","brag","honor","humble","pride"],"id":170857,"author_id":"Richard+Paul+Evans"},{"text":"Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,Few come within the compass of my curse,—Wherein I did not some notorious ill,As kill a man, or else devise his death,Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,Set deadly enmity between two friends,Make poor men's cattle break their necks;Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,And bid the owners quench them with their tears.Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful thingsAs willingly as one would kill a fly,And nothing grieves me heartily indeedBut that I cannot do ten thousand more.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["brag","evil","final-words","gallows","insult","monologue","moor","speech","taunt","villain"],"id":193367,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["back","bad-attitude","boast","brag","clarify","clear","clearer","clearest","destiny","ego","fail","failure","fall","file","fine","food-for-thought","grade","great","grediness","greed","israelmore-ayivor","jealous","jealousness","jealousy","nice","plans","pompus","prepared","pure","purer","purest","purpose","ready","ripe","ripen","success","sweet","unhealthy-ego","vision","visions"],"id":222916,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"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.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","arrogance","boast","brag","christ","faith","gloat","glorification","glorification-of-god","glorifying-god","glory","god","humility","praise","success","worship"],"id":243356,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me...Like having lived less is an accomplishment. Makes me want to pat them on the head, lol. I'm comfortable with who I am.","author":"Michelle M. Pillow","tags":["accomplishment","age","brag","life","wisdom","wisdom","youth","youth-culture"],"id":279386,"author_id":"Michelle+M.+Pillow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}