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Quotes About Modesty

I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.
~ Scatman Crothers
Sport has given me drive and discipline. It also taught me to remain humble.
~ Charlene, Princess of Monaco
My parents always taught me to be humble no matter what the experience, to not think I was better than anyone else.
~ Robert Parish
They lived, though simply, richly, if rich means a good cup of coffee.
~ Rick Bragg
A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
~ Rick Pitino
Do not jockey for position or try to prove your importance to others with a lot of hollow, empty boasting and self-promotion. Instead, have a modest opinion of yourself, and learn to recognize the outstanding contributions that others have to impart.
~ Rick Renner
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
~ Rick Warren
A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
~ Rita Rudner
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.
~ Robert Altman
Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.
~ Robert Brault
A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty that polished the dart.
~ Robert Burns
Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn,That while a lassie she had worn,In longitude tho' sorely scanty,It was her best, and she was vauntie.
~ Robert Burns
A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart.
~ Robert Burns
A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart.
~ Robert Burns
They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.
~ Robert Burton
They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.
~ Robert Burton
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
~ Robert Hand
An excess of simplicity, after all, was just another form of ostentation, and pride in one's humility a sin.
~ Robert Harris
Stuffing the low-necked gown away under the bed, her old nurse had muttered some saying about displaying wares you did not mean to sell, and when Morgase claimed she had just made it up, her reply was At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.
~ Robert Jordan
No soy un señor, milady. Soy un pastor, y toca la flauta en las posadas
~ Robert Jordan
Men were willing to wear the same clothes until they rotted off. Of
~ Robert Jordan
Don't let pride get in your way. Pride is a luxury that sometimes you can't afford.
~ Robert Sharenow
The iguanodon has modest powers of self awareness. She feels happy and complacent and content. She feels efficient, in a vague I'm doing what I should be doing and I'm doing it well sort of way.
~ Robert T. Bakker