Bluster Quotes:

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

- Padgett Powell

topic: Thinking, Youth, Bluster, Time To Think

Never brag, never bluster, never blush.

- Robert Browning

topic: Bragging, Bluster, Brag

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

- Aristophanes

topic: May, Firsts, Bluster

America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.

- Barack Obama

source: Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

topic: America, Bluster, Resolve

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Strong, Thoughtful, Compassion, Strong Person, Bluster

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

- Robert Kennedy

topic: Dream, Honor, Swagger, Bluster, Shattered Dreams

Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations. Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that . . . the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.

- Michael Behe

source: "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

topic: Evolution, Authority, Claims, Bluster

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.133, Courier Corporation

topic: Lying, Men, Doe, Softness, Bluster

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

- Antoine Rivarol

topic: Men, Brave, Deeds, Deeds Not Words, Bluster

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

- Sun Tzu

source: Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu Art of War”, p.68, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

topic: War, Enemy, Wish, Truce, Bluster

It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes, clucks, to gurgle, tinkles, blows, snores, claps, to lisp, to cough, it boils, to scream, to weep, to sob, to croak, to stutter, to lisp, to coo, to breathe, to clash, to bleat, to neigh, to grumble, to scrape, to bubble. These words, and others like them, which express sounds are more than mere symbols: they are a kind of hieroglyphics for the ear.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Blow, Sound, Cracks, Lisp, Bluster

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

- Ryan Holiday

source: Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.123, Profile Books

topic: Ambition, Humility, Resilience, Bluster

Real confidence has no bluster or bombast. It's not rooted in a desire to seem better than everyone else and it's not driven by a fear of appearing weak. Real confidence settles in when you have a clear vision of exactly what you need to do. Real confidence blooms as you wield the skills and power you have built through your hard work and discipline.

- Rob Brezsny

topic: Real, Hard Work, Skills, Bluster

A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

- Evan Thomas

source: Evan Thomas, Staff of Newsweek (2009). “A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama”, p.186, PublicAffairs

topic: Leadership, Humble, Self Worth, Bluster

[Donald] Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people.He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Isis, People, Use, Bluster

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

topic: Self, Suffering, Way, Bluster

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

- John Sununu

topic: Debt, Answers, Chance, Bluster, National Interests

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

- Robert Grudin

source: Robert Grudin (1982). “Time and the art of living”, Harpercollins

topic: Attitude, Lying, Struggle, Bluster

If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to turn out. All that is required is a book of instructions, a certain amount of bluff and bluster, something to use for threatening and punishing purposes, and of course the animal. Educating an animal, on the other hand, demands keen intelligence, integrity, imagination, and the gentle touch, mentally, vocally, and physically.

- J. Boone

topic: Dog, Integrity, Book, Bluster, Gentle Touch

Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Movement, Drag, Bluffs, Bluster

We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

source: News Conference, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 28, 1965.

topic: Determination, Lying, Believe, Pledge, Bluster

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

- Edgar Guest

topic: Struggle, Able, Looks, Bluster

We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's not suggesting that if the Democrats win, things can get worse. I mean, all we can do now is to look at our field policy and change the course. We need more diplomatic outreach toward Iran, Syria and Middle Eastern allies, and less bluster and less threats, and fewer troops.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Mean, Winning, Iraq, Bluster, Outreach

... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

- Margaret Halsey

topic: Two, Giving, Likes, Bluster

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.

- Daphne du Maurier

source: Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales

topic: Air, Age, Noise, Bluster

Whoever will listen will hear the speaking heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today a part of popular religion. We are at the opposite end of the pole from there. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Men, Opposites, Heaven, Bluster

A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.

- Markus Zusak

source: Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.6, RH Childrens Books

topic: Calm, Reassuring, Violent, Bluster

What [Barack Obama] and I did was to say clearly what we're doing, all the bluster, all of the sanctions, that are just imposed by the American government haven't had much impact.Let's see if we can put together an international coalition to really cripple Iran, and then maybe we can begin a negotiation, and that's what I did. It was difficult. We had to get China and Russia on board, and not just get them on board by signing a piece of paper.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Iran, Impact, Russia, Bluster

Donald Trump bigotry, his bluster, his bullying, have become his campaign.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Bullying, Campaigns, Trump, Bluster

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

- Walter Savage Landor

topic: Noise, Care, Affection, Bustle, Bluster

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Men, Noise, Size, Bluster

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

- Richard Siken

topic: Sides, Sometimes, Ends, Bluster

They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won't do it.

- Henepola Gunaratana

source: Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

topic: Discipline, Giving, Over You, Bluster

I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

- Richard Siken

topic: Dream, Thinking, Long, Rereading, Bluster

I find it deeply disturbing that someone wanting to be president of the United States would talk the way Donald Trump talks, use the rhetoric, the demagoguery, the bigotry and the bluster and the bullying that he has demonstrated.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.9news.com

topic: Bullying, President, Way, Demagoguery, Bluster