Quotes About Modesty

I'm not the type of guy who is going to be out in front of a microphone for attention.

I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches.

I might be a celebrity but I belong to the humble category.

I just want to be self-sustainable so that I can continue to just do what I like to do and not make a million dollars. Nobody needs a million dollars.

I met Kendrick when I was younger but he's not really the flashy type. You'd never know if he had a dollar or a million dollars.

We're not millionaires, but we live well.

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

I love simple dresses and use only minimal make up.

I like to keep it bare minimum, be it make-up or accessories.

I don't say I was the first, because, who knows, maybe there was a guy out in Minnesota doing it before me.

In fashion, the minute you say, 'I am successful,' is the minute you are going down.

The service of peace. The service of any person in need. The word service is so immense. Let's return first to a more modest scale: our families, our classmates, our friends, our own community. We must live for them—for if we cannot live for them, whom else do we think we are living for?

After the Age of Pericles, as Athenian confidence dimmed, that famous confidence was all too often replaced by cynicism, modesty by cockiness, sincerity by manipulation, strength by bluster. Though the gods were more and more loudly invoked, the prayers rang hollow, the appeal to conscience turned mute, and any reference to social justice tended to be met with a knowing smirk.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

He who knows best knows how little he knows

La belleza engendra pudor

La vanidad no es algo grande y la grandeza no puede por tanto ser vanidosa .

Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

Humility is the surest sign of strength.

Excellence, here, was in proportion to obscurity: the one who was best was the one who was least observed, least distinguished.

Do you think me a bloody eunuch, wench?" he questioned harshly. "Cover yourself before I spill your virgin blood!