Quotes About Modesty

I ain't no superstar.

My main thing is winning the Super Bowl, but if people call me a superstar, I'll let them call me, but I don't think I am.

At Lyon, there's 20 other superstars there - I'm not the best player there. I'm not the best player at England.

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I didn't have much. I grew up with a loving, supportive family, with a roof over my head, but there was no luxury.

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.

There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.

People would be surprised by me if they knew I was humble.

I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.

He blushed a little.

While covering her from neck to ankles, it was thin and clung to her figure with alarming tenacity.

Bragging actually dilutes the positive feelings you receive from an accomplishment or something you are proud of. To make matters worse, the more you try to prove yourself, the more others will avoid you, talk behind your back about your insecure need to brag, and perhaps even resent you.

Rather than diluting the positive feelings by telling others about your own kindness, by keeping it to yourself you get to retain all the positive feelings.

I am a worm in comparison with His Excellency. I am a worm.' 'Yes, that's just it, you are a worm indeed.

Fearless to the strong; humble to the weak

the happiest people on earth were said to be the Danes. Not because of their supposed hedonism, but because of the modesty of their expressed hopes. Instead of aiming for the stars and the moon, their ambition was only to reach the next streetlamp and, being pleased when they did so, were the happier for it. He

She did draw and paint and did both diligently, but possessed modest talent. She didn't mind. Her gift and passion lay in the observation and recognition of talent and beauty, whether it was found in the work of an Italian master or the profile of a viscount-to-be.

He was as naked as a wolf. Made­lyne grabbed the blan­ket and threw it to­ward him. Cover your­self, Dun­can. It isn't de­cent to let me see your legs.

She must not look too proud nor yet too humble, lest people say she is proud of her humility." Excerpt From: Catherine, Called Birdy.

It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique--our featherless bipedality, our tool-using, our language--some other species comes along to snatch it away. If modesty were a human trait, we'd have learned to be more cautious over the years.

Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.