A Quote by B. C. Forbes

Bragging often precedes begging.

B. C. Forbes

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B. C. Forbes
Scottish - Journalist
May 14, 1880 - May 6, 1954

Bragging that you had sex with a prostitute is like bragging that you got Doritos out of a vending machine.

Natasha Leggero

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. And all we're asking for is an opportunity to do something for ourselves, rather than to sit around as a beggar, begging for jobs and begging for education from - for someone else for the rest of our lives.

Malcolm X

Action often precedes the feeling.

Zig Ziglar

You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

Zig Ziglar

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

Vance Havner

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

Julius Charles Hare

[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

Chuck Todd

Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.

William Carleton

Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.

Mason Cooley

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

George Eliot

I kept begging and begging for a car when I turned 16. My dad got me a 1971 Chevy pickup with no air conditioning and no radio!

Channing Frye

We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.

Tullian Tchividjian

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.

John G. Lake

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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