Quotes About Modesty

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn't have to brag about it.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.