Quotes About Modesty

Mrs. Plackett did not believe in letting emotion show. Keep yourself to yourself had always been her motto.

I say to myself: Who are you to measure infinite power?

On the toilet no one is a star. Remember that and you will go far in life.

Alala! I have no cloth to wrap me. The kites will see that I am naked. I am ashamed to meet all these people.

Men had been puffed up with pride by notions not a tithe as excellent and practicable.

think there is a great deal in you; but you must not become proud and you must not talk.

It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.

Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown act like you've been there before.

Humility is not weakness, but strength under control

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Modesty is the key to success

You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

A man's high success requires a key; but his happiness needs personality to be low-key

To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.

When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.