Quotes About Modesty

We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.

I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.

I've stayed away from sexy roles. It's never interested me.

Being real is what keeps me humble. It doesn't matter how much money I make or how much I accomplish. What's critical is staying real to myself and keeping my feet on the ground. That's what helps keep me going.

I am very proud to look back and see all that I've been through, without forgetting my identity and always staying humble.

If I am the best, I am capable of saying it, but if I find the others better, I am also capable of shutting up. And staying on the bench. Full stop.

Staying humble has always been really important to me, and always being proud of what you're representing.

Our entire family is shy. Apart from film promotions, we do not believe in staying in the limelight.

I think that's the biggest thing - staying humble, because the story you hear a lot of times is that guys who have success let it get to their head.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part.

Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

Contemplative prayer starts modestly, but as soon as it begins to reach a certain intensity, it opens us to the unconscious. Painful memories that we have forgotten or repressed begin to come to consciousness. Primitive emotions that we felt as children and that we have been compensating for may come to consciousness.

Ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.

Humility was never a loser.

A boasting tongue, as sure as fate,    Will trip its owner soon or late.

After all, a girl's biggest asset is her virtue.