Quotes About Modesty

There is a certain noble pride, through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.

The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Talking too much, too soon, and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

God hates those who praise themselves.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin.

Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

O shame! Where is they blush?

To be simple is to be great.

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.

I explained to him I had simple tastes and didn't want anything ostentatious, no matter what it costs.

Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.

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

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

If at first you do succeed — try to hide your astonishment.

There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vendor of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh; and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom of fifteen to a lady of fifty.