Quotes About Modesty

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

The truly humble person always walks in doubt about his own virtues, and usually those he sees in his neighbors seem more certain and more valuable.

Let humility be always at work, like the bee at the honeycomb, or all will be lost.

Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

Heloise marvelled at how calmly Delia talked about herself, not trailing ragged ends of need or display.

Our Lord made me understand that the only true glory is that which lasts for ever; and that to attain it there is no necessity to do brilliant deeds, but rather to hide from the eyes of others, and even from oneself, so that "the left hand knows not what the right hand does."[1]

A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace.