B. C. Forbes Quotes

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

You never toot your own horn.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Boasting of glory does not make glory.

I'd be pretty saddened to hear anyone say, 'Yeah, listen to this... God, I'm awesome, the way this all sits together,' about their own work.

I was brought up not to brag. I've always disliked people who do.

I don't know how humble a person can be while consistently spouting statements like 'I, Donald Trump, am a totally gifted politician,' or 'I'm, like, a smart person.'

I don't like to praise myself - that I am the quickest, that I am the strongest, that I am the most technical guy - I never do that.

I don't like false modesty.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.