Quotes About Modesty

I can't drive, so I don't need a flash car, and I like living at home, so I don't need a mansion. I'm sensible with money. It's not why I act.

Simple life is always good. Fortune should not be created on other's money.

All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright

Not greedy of filthy lucre.

My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.

I don't look at myself in the mirror. I'll flash past a mirror in the morning to check how I'm dressed, that's it.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

Humility is the light of understanding.

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

Humility is the only defence against vanity

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

I'm not a show-off by nature.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

Practice humility and patience.

I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.