Quotes About Modesty

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory—nothing so expensive as glory.

He had no wish to obtrude himself on bishops.

Honesty, humility and hard work will lead to success in life.

Grace knocks us flat, preventing any form of self-congratulation.

Even the tiny frog is spoilt by its mouth

Even at moments like this, there is a limit to how weird I am prepared to appear.

Every time the woman turned her head, it was like she was posing for a picture with an Instagram setting that filtered out humility.

Modesty is the way you deal with beauty, not the way you avoid it.

Still, the truth is that there was nothing extra. If my childhood were a sandwich, there would be no meat hanging off the bread. We had what we needed and nothing more. "And nothing less,

Se dice que Dios ama la modestia de los hombres pero los humanos la desprecian.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

I am a humble speaker, I speak very well.

I don't look into myself too much. I don't think I'm shy so much as a better listener than I am a speaker. I just really don't wish for attention.

I'm not much of a public speaker.

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

I am not conscious of the fact that something special should be done for me.