Quotes About Modesty

A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat.

My needs are simple, my salary more than ample.

bikini with a short terrycloth cover-up over it.

I've found that guys who inherit like that often have a chip on their shoulder. The man brags too much about how successful he is. Somebody who'd earned it probably wouldn't feel the need. You don't see Warren Buffett telling everybody how brilliant he is at business. His actions speak for him.

Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back, Beldin said sourly.

My ambitions at this point are modest and mostly surround staying alive.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

Men of few words are the best men. (3.2.41)

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature;

Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

Sebastian says modestly that though his twin resembled him very much , she was reputed to be beautiful. But more importantly, she had a mind that was just and beautiful. she drowned in salt water, leaving sebastian to drown her memories in the salt water of his tears.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

Mr. Attlee is a modest man with much to be modest about.

Attlee is a modest man who has a great deal to be modest about.

The adept does not show himself;     He who shows himself's no adept.

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.