{"quotes":[{"text":"The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["achievement","arrogance","bragging","challenges","ego","envy","fame","humility","humor","money","rich","silence","success","wealth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":65412,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["boasting","bragging","conceit","gossip","haughty","pride","richelle","richelle-goodrich"],"id":72322,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"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":"It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential.[check for wording] Proper pride says, 'I'm good at this.' Improper pride says, 'I'm better than you.","author":"James A. Owen","tags":["bragging","creativity","pride","proud","skill"],"id":83311,"author_id":"James+A.+Owen"},{"text":"What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["bragging","dating","dating-advice","internet","men-and-women","modern-life","modernity"],"id":93326,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["beauty","boasting","bragging","ego","humble","humility"],"id":109140,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["boasting","bragging","bravado","bravery","courage","determination","ego","endurance","quotes"],"id":147276,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"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":"Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.","author":"Harold Holzer","tags":["bragging","self-confidence"],"id":166992,"author_id":"Harold+Holzer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}