Quotes About Modesty

I nrver make the front pages or the gossip columns.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

When I was a kid, I never even thought about fashion. I had one pair of jeans.

To be very modest about what is happening in my life and my career over the last couple of years, I did not know if I would go on to play Test cricket when we were in the pandemic, in the lockdown.

I never go sexy. I'm more into a well-made pair of pants and a good shoe.

I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.

Personality-wise, I like to avoid putting my pride on parade.

Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

Paris is the most modest girl.

Yeah, I don't think I'm taking my shirt off to play flag football in the park with the kids.

I don't think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I'm not.

I find it more consoling to think of myself as little than to think of myself as big. I think I've gotten that from animals, particularly dogs. Dogs live such a modest life, and they don't live long, and the more you're around them, you kind of accept that.

I don't see myself as a particularly expert angler.

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

You will never see my sons in parties. We keep to ourselves and try to do whatever we have to do.

I am a simple girl and do not like partying. Whatever parties I attend are small ones, with my own friends.

Hitler ran through his past achievements, concluding that 'the moment is favourable now'. Never one to be bashful about his own feats, he said, 'As a last factor I must in all modesty name my own person irreplaceable . . . I am convinced of my powers of intellect and decision.

Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.

If anyone had appeared in just a pair of boxer shorts or swimming trunks, the womenfolk would have had "an attack of the vapors" and the menfolk would have exploded in a rage at the indecency of it. What exactly "an attack of the vapors" was is unclear, because there is no such thing as womenfolk anymore, and there is certainly no such thing as an attack of the vapors.

Galen's writings were the indisputable source of medical authority for more than a thousand years. "It is I, and I alone, who has revealed the true path of medicine," Galen wrote with his usual modesty. And yet Galen never conducted anything resembling a modern experiment. Why

Tout ça sentait les économies de bout de chandelle, pas la misère mais la médiocrité, ce qui est indéniablement beaucoup plus impardonnable.

Her temperament has never been competitive; she immediately wants to disappear, to obliterate herself, to make way for them.

The modesty of the athletic body which is contented with its perfection You could limit your human existence to filling your shape with a muscle ("Tennis")