Quotes About Modesty

I don't want to be one of those kids who gets famous and then changes and becomes cocky. That's why it's so important to me to try and take a photo with every girl who comes to see me.

Some people are made to be famous and do photo shoots, but I'm not one of them. I'm more comfortable in the library!

Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

I have a reverence for great photography, but I don't consider myself in that league.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

It's always been hard trying to find the right pieces that go together, but it's always been something that interests me - finding new ways to be fashionable and cute but still being modest.

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

I'm no pin-up.

I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

Nothing is hanging on my walls.

I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri.

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

I just want to be humble at all times.

I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.

I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

I'm not really wanting to be famous.

I do feel it's hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I'm trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.