Quotes About Modesty

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

Women, like teeth, should be strong but not prominent.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

A great man is always willing to be little.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

Tis the ignorant who boast.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.

Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

Be humble in your confidence yet courageous in your character.

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do but you don't have to be arrogant about it.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.