Quotes About Modesty

If you find yourself talking about everything you have or showing off by being publicly generous instead of privately, then you have a problem with pride.

Pride was an unattractive trait, even if it was well-placed.

I don't do Twitter because I don't want to talk about myself more than I already have to.

Comfort and simplicity are two keys that I follow when it comes to fashion.

I'm not really the type of guy that dates out loud, lives out loud.

I'm not really the type that spends money on myself.

I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress.

I never said I was a Tyson, Bowe or Ali. I said I'm Shannon Briggs, the latest, not the 'greatest.'

I don't like to show off; if I have to save a ball in an ugly way, fine.

I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.

I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.

Truly accomplished artists are humble and unaware of their abilities.

It's unbelievable what the rewards are like with being a footballer, but I'm not stupid - I don't go around flaunting it.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.