Quotes About Modesty

Being smart turns people on. Announcing how smart you are turns them off.

In the third section, you proceed to turn us into modest and peace-loving Epicureans.

We need a millstone around our neck to keep us humble.

lest we be puffed up and make an idol out of our righteousness.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Eu cred c? s? fii inteligent este mai r?u decât s? fii prost, pentru c? un prost nu-ÅŸi d? seama ce-i cu el, pe când cineva inteligent, chiar dac?-i umil ÅŸi modest tot o ÅŸtie.

didn't feel the need to broadcast it to the fucking nation.

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

Never read anything that you wouldn't want to read out loud - - to your mother.

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

El mayor refinamiento es la mayor simplicidad

A candle cannot boast standing next to the sun.

A river cannot boast to a sea.

Seek to be the smartest in a room, not the loudest.

A ver short chapter with a long title, in which not very much happens.

Travel makes one modest" said Gustave Flaubert. "You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." Such a perspective can be liberating. Especially when you have an illness that may on one hand lower self-esteem but on the other intensifies the trivial.

Travel makes one modest," said Gustave Flaubert. "You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." Such perspective can be strangely liberating.

Calatoria il face pe o, sa fie modest", a spus Gustave Flaubert. "Atunci iti dai seama cat de putin loc ocupi in lume.

A girl can't feel like a lady with a bottle of beer before her.

Les hommes de nature infidèle, si infatués qu'ils paraissent, sont souvent assez modestes en amour, parce qu'ils imaginent les autres d'après eux-mêmes. (Le roi de fer, partie 3, ch. 7, p. 328)

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.