Quotes About Modesty

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

Be humble in this life.

I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don't think I'm very interesting... I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

There's a time to be humble and a time to "bring the thunder".

There are times to be humble and times to bring the thunder!

So a person who is truly humble recognizes both his capabilities and his limitations.

Não falava isto por modéstia, que nem sequer considerava uma virtude respeitável, mas por honestidade e porque queria que vissem que não existem homens especiais e que o herói pode ser qualquer um, a depender de onde esteja, do que faça e de como o que faz é interpretado pelos outros.

I was born gifted. I can speak of my gifts with little or no modesty, but with tremendous gratitude, precisely because they are gifts, and not things which I created, or actions about which I might be proud.

Iris Murdoch defined humility as a "selfless respect for reality.

I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself; that should be a secret they must find out .

The people are more modest than Americans and Europeans. So much so that, as soon as I reached Kathmandu, I bought local clothes. Loose shirts and vests and baggy pants that gathered at the ankles and probably made me look like a giant genie.

It was hard to be moderate in immoderate times.

Lewis was an apologist from temper, from conviction, and from modesty. From temper, for he loved argument. From conviction, being traditionally orthodox. From modesty, because he laid no claim either to the learning which would have made him a theologian or to the grace which would have made him a spiritual guide.

She's nowt spesh, didn't even have any ornaments. All her walls were painted white, no wallpaper, just black and white photos in black frames, big things they were. There was no carpet on the floor, bare floorboards and she could only afford to have one flower in a vase. Who buys just one flower Lil? Bit of a cheapskate if you ask me. All top show and no knickers, I reckon.

High time, my girl - high time! Moderation in all things, remember. That's the plan"Let your moderation be known unto all men!"

She couldn't help but laugh at his wicked, mock-schoolboy eagerness. "You, Mr. Monkton-Coombes, are a shocking flirt." He gave her a wounded look. "Nonsense! I'm a very good flirt, some would even say excellent, though modesty prevents me from saying so.

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.