Self praise is no recommendation.

Meaning: Boasting about yourself undermines your credibility; let others vouch for your worth instead.

Origin: A 19th-century English saying: William Cobbett's Weekly Register (1826) calls it a good rule, and a character in Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) says, "Self-praise is no recommendation, but I may say for myself that I am not so bad a man of business."

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