self-applause Quotes

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

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

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

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

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.

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

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

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.