Quotes About Self-effacement

Beaming and melting in smiles of benevolence and self-effacement, they sidled up and plumped down next to Lucette, who turned to them with her last, last, last free gift of staunch courtesy that was stronger than failure and death.

There it was again, Plagueis thought: the deceptive cadence; the use of flattery, charm, and self-effacement as if rapier feints in a duel. The need to be seen as guileless, unassuming, empathetic. A youth with no desire to enter politics, and yet born for it.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

The woman leads a twofold existence indeed, the depth of her social ostracism being equally only by her stoic endurance. To live in harmony with the society of man, to conform with men's demands, she resigns herself to a self-effacement that is demeaning, she sacrifices herself.

mezcla de orgullo y servilismo, petulancia y modestia.

I'm not one that really soaks up the limelight. I'm OK with kind of escaping it.

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

The humble, self-effacing Charlie you were all talking about a while ago is just waiting patiently. I'll admit I'm like him in a number of ways, but humility and self-effacement are not among them. I've learned how little they get a person in this world.

Humility and self-effacement ... get a person [little] in this life.

Keep your identity small.

Mr. Attlee is a modest man with much to be modest about.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.

With his worn-out lungs, his obstinate self-effacement, his bookish timidity, Broux is nonetheless a strong man; by means of his awareness of how impossible it is to live, he raises himself precisely to a higher possibility of living, to an endurance which is more sure of itself because it believes it has nothing more to lose. From his weakness he was able to create a strength; from his despair, an acquiescence; from his acquiescence, a hope...

Why are you so secretive, Penney dear?' asked Barbie. 'Not secretive,' exclaimed Penney. 'It's just that people don't really want to know. My life hasn't been at all interesting, so why should I bore people by telling them about it?

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

straightened the immaculate room as if to erase any sign of herself.

Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.

I'm not the type of person who enjoys the limelight.

Modesty is my best quality.

I'm not here to promote your pride.

The ultimate self-effacement is not the pretense of the minimal, but the jocular considerations of the maximal in the manner of Wallace Stevens.

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.