A Quote by Craig Brown
All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.
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God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.
Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it.
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.
The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.
Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.
The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.
A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.
You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better.
Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
It's not hard for me to stay humble. I think there is always somebody better than me, so that's what keeps me humble. A lot of people could learn how to stay humble.
Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.
It's become such a cultural norm that people brag about it: "Oh yeah, you did that? I did this." Keeping up with the Joneses used to be about "I have the bigger house and car," and now it's much more about how much stuff you can cram into your calendar.
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