Quotes About Modesty

I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

Pride is a dangerous indulgence. -Temple Master Lha-Mi

Lo primero que se me viene a la cabeza es la "humildad".

TO CREATE SOMETHING GREAT (OR EVENTUALLY HUGE), START EXTREMELY SMALL "My suggestion is, whenever possible, ask yourself: What's the smallest possible footprint I can get away with?

After we ate our heaping slice of humble pie, we asked the missus if she could at least serve it up a la mode next time.

Christians might return to the foundational book, which as ever is very timely. Jesus preached that it "is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." We should be modest, for "whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

In everything the middle course is best: All things in excess bring trouble to men.

A real hero doesn't expect to be thanked or even recognized.

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.

I don't market myself too well. I just get odd offers once in a while.

I'm not one that really soaks up the limelight. I'm OK with kind of escaping it.

I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.

I'm a humble guy, okay?

As beautiful as Oklahoma is, it doesn't have big lights and none of that. But that's fine... I'm a low-maintenance, low-key, chill guy.

I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

My life has always been an open book and it's not such an eventful life.