Simon Cowell Quotes

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

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

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.

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

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

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

If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth

Sometimes I feel like you can toot your own trumpet too much. I don't really like that.

I don't want to write a hagiography on myself. To me, that is just a waste.

I always showed off when I was a kid.

I don't like false modesty.

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

I'm kinda not one of those people that likes to put up trophies in my house, because I don't want my mom to come be like, 'Hey, you're full of yourself.'

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

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

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

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.