Quotes About Modesty

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

Keep your head high and your skirt down.

Proudness is from ignorance, humbleness is from wisdom

Be brave enough to be simple and humble.

To be worthy of recognition, be humble.

True wisdom is found in simplicity and in humility.

Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.

To be great, practice simplicity and express humility.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

If you think, you are important, you are not.

Humbleness is the heart of happiness.

If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.

No man is great if he thinks he is.