Quotes About Modesty

It's not good to have a huge ego.

I'm not into fame and ego.

I'm not one to get a big ego - I think it's an Aussie thing, I just laugh.

I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

I have never been a person to build empires.

I've never encountered any star ego.

I have a very European feel about nudity.

Politeness will be a great acquisition, if it does no more than impart grace to manners; but its function does not stop here. For propriety, springing as it does from motives of benevolence and modesty, and actuated by tender feelings toward the sensibilities of others, is ever a graceful expression of sympathy. Its requirement is that we should weep with those that weep and rejoice with those that rejoice.

The cultivation of tender feelings breeds considerate regard for the sufferings of others. Modesty and complaisance, actuated by respect for others' feelings, are at the root of politeness.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

She sat quietly in one corner of the sofa, the end of her sari drawn modestly over her hair. Like the motionless illusion of a madly spinning top, she was staring vacantly into space.

Sindoor in our partings, bindis on our forehead and dupattas drawn over our faces we sat demurely in a corner. We stole glances at each other's face and were struck by our own beauty. This made us all the more bashful.

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

In another letter he says: "A man may be constitutionally meek as the lamb, constitutionally kind as the spaniel, constitutionally cheerful as the lark, and constitutionally modest as the owl; but these things are not sanctification. No sweet, humble, heavenly tempers, no sanctifying graces, are found but from the cross.

If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

Neither strident nor flamboyant, God's servant conducts a ministry that appears almost self-defacing. What a contrast to the arrogant self-advertising of so many hypesters today, both in and out of the church.

A poor child knew what it meant to be poor. We didn't ask for much, and sometimes we didn't even ask.

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

Moderation He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door Embittering all his state Horace, from Odes, Book II, translated by William Cowper

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

For holy conversation to occur, we must at least be in touch with the reality that we could be wrong. Holy conversation needs an appropriate modesty that is the opposite of arrogance.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.