Quotes About Modesty

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

I never claimed to be good.

Everyone looked at me, because I was the most beautiful woman in the town. I don't say this to boast, because there is nothing in it to boast of. It was nothing I did myself.

Among our bragging, ranting heroes, Peleus was the exception: a man of modesty.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself but undoubting about the truth. This has been exactly reversed … We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.5

what we don't know and can't do far exceeds what we do know and can do. A little humility, then, is hardly rocket science. It is common sense.

Aí de quando a paixão é simultaneamente modesta e arrebatada!

Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

I'm not here to promote your pride.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady.

Ladies: Showing a great amount of skin when you dress up isn't the way to find prince charming. Prince charming likes his gifts wrapped.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Becoming great has a lot to do with being humble and having your feet on earth.

Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.

A great man isn't the one who can show all his greatness, but great man is the one who can show his Humility upon his greatness.

Being humble isn't a state of mind, its a maturity thing too.