Oh Yea!

"I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess."

-- Theophrastus
"Noise alone proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."

-- Mark Twain

"There is a hidden benefit in another's blatant bragging, that the speaker is actually unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out of him, and then hold him to it; inviting him to fully show up vs. show off."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes we just can't, don't, or won't hear ourselves as we talk about ourselves and/or our accomplishments in the world. At times we can often slip into being quite braggadocious, if not downright obnoxious. We often need people who really love us (and don't fear us) to let us know when we become so full of ourselves that we no longer see ourselves clearly. At times like these it's very important to remember that life is about really "showing up" for the relatively few people who really matter, vs. "showing off" for the much larger numbers who don't. And showing up has nothing to do with building oneself up; in fact, it has more to do with peeling away the "presentation layer" or "defensive armor" to get to one's core essence, and then sharing it with total vulnerability. -- Spivey