Quotes About Modesty

If you're brilliant and undiscovered and underappreciated (in whatever field you choose), then you're being too generous about your definition of brilliant.

Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails

This book has no pretensions to infallibility, let alone to omniscience.

Adam and Eve covered their privates with fig leaves; the first Indians covered their privates with their tiny hands.

Of course, it would help if the manwould keep his shirt on whenever he came into her unconscious mind. What kind of person didn't have the decency to keep himself clothed while barging into her dreams. a little modesty went a long way. Yeah, but clothes on a body so fine was its own form of obscenity. shh, mind, have some decency yourself.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

I don't think my life is more interesting than anybody else's.

I'm the least sexy person in real life.

We know we should be completely humble. We should stop thinking that we're very marvelous because we're not. We are interesting at best because we are a part of life.

I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.

Only a fool thinks he knows everything.

A Good Group A good group is better than a spectacular group. When leaders become superstars, the teacher outshines the teaching. Very few superstars are down-to-earth. Fame breeds fame, and before long they get carried away with themselves. Then they fly off center and crash. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor. The leader does not take all the credit for what happens and has no need for fame. A moderate ego demonstrates wisdom.

Knowing how polarities work, the wise leader does not push to make things happen, but allows process to unfold on its own. The leader teaches by example rather than by lecturing others on how they ought to be. The leader knows that constant interventions will block the group's process. The leader does not insist that things come out a certain way. The wise leader does not seek a lot of money or a lot of praise. Nevertheless, there is plenty of both.

Merkel is the opposite of ostentatious. She has kept her small cottage near her home town of Templin, goes to her customary hairdresser in Berlin and from time to time is seen grocery shopping. She devours art. She sometimes phones her one or two favourite museum directors directly to ask them if they wouldn't mind staying open a little longer so that she can see a particular exhibition without any fuss.

The outer garments of to-day will become the under-clothes of some destined to-morrow, and centuries hence a man found walking on the public highways dressed as you are will be arrested by the police for shocking the sense of propriety of the community, and so on. It will go on and on until you will find human beings everywhere decked out in layer after layer of clothes until he or she has lost all semblance to that beautiful thing that an all-wise Providence has designed us to be.

You can be twice as tasty without the show. Just do the business and piss off before you're spotted.

Be valiant, but not too venturous. Let thy attire be comely, but not costly.

You need to choose bravery over shame," Leanne says. "Humility over pride.

First rule of cleavage: it's not how low you go, but where and when you show.

I think you're really nice" "I'm nothing special." it's not a lament. More a statement.