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Quotes About Modesty

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.
~ Peter Cushing
I havent had the whole famous thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.
~ Brenton Thwaites
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
~ Karl Barth
You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!
~ Phyllis Diller
Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
~ George Mikes
I watched you undress. Shame on you!
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
He just wasn't into flaunting his awesomeness, but sometimes a person's awesomeness simply flaunts itself, even when you politely ask it not to.
~ Sage Steadman, Ann, Not Annie
If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I'm not entirely comfortable with that, " I said, smirking.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Fallen Legion
He who thinks he's the best is not the best... And the one who thinks "he who thinks he's the best is not the best" is also not the best.
~ Suky Achchille
I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.
~ Julia Sawalha
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
~ Rick Warren
When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.
~ Walter Payton
I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't.
~ Rocky Marciano
Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.
~ Carlson Gracie
Be humble, or you'll stumble.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.
~ Tariq Ramadan
If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.
~ Elvis Presley
The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
~ Thomas Moore
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
~ Confucius
I like things simple.
~ Valentino Garavani