Quotes About Modesty

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.

I am very bad at taking compliments. Even in school, when people told me that I look good, I could just manage an awkward thank you and a smile.

When someone is constantly praising you, beyond a point, you don't know what to say beyond a 'thank you.'

I don't consider myself a rock star. I would rather be looked at as a regular guy who happened to be in the right time at the right place. But if you call me a rock star, thank you.

I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

Right away Noah's thought was, You might've sworn off men, but I bet they haven't sworn off you—not with that face and body. Shew. He was starting to feel a little warm. Let me seek to understand rather than to be understood. Where there is despair, let me offer hope. And dear God, could you please get her to cover up that cleavage for a while? "Look,

The Beats, like their successors in the Sixties, have often been described as 'idealists'. But fantasies of total gratification are not the product of idealism. They arise from a narcissism that, finding the world unequal to its desires, retreats into a realm of heedless self-absorption. Modesty, convention, and self-restraint then appear as the enemies rather than as the allies of humanity. In this sense, the Beat generation marks a step away from civilization.

But, modest though it was, the building had always felt to Paolo like an anteroom of heaven.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

Lou, honey, I'll buy you a new pair of shoes if you'll stop flashing your panties at everyone sitting across the room from us. You are wearing panties, right?" I glance up and across at Stefan. His words register a moment later and my head swivels toward the other side of the room. There are a number of people staring at me. One of them is Detective Terry Shay. Or I think it is. He's not looking directly at me. He's looking up my skirt

She was a woman of reserve.

Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.

Percebo, percebo! Tendes a volúpia suprema da vaidade, que é a vaidade da modéstia.

I am a mere unicorn. Gaudior dropped his silver lashes modestly.

What is required of us is restraint and humility.

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.

Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.

Higher you step up to the ladder of success.. lesser you need to speak about yourself.. your deeds should do so.

The humble one is the better one.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Keep your identity small.