Quotes About Modesty

With great humility brings great grace.

a little modesty averts disgrace

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity:She that has that, is clad in complete steel.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.

We are on the road to producing a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.2.

chacun souhaitait le voir, et ceux qui, habitués par le passé aux émotions violentes, ne ressentaient que le poids de l'ennui, se réjouissaient d'avoir en leur présence un objet capable de retenir leur attention. Rien ne venait jamais échauffer son visage d'une pâleur mortelle, pourtant doté d'une forme régulière et de beaux traits, ni le rouge de la modestie ou le feu plus intense de la passion […].

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much.

To do good in secret, and shun the world's applause, is the surest testimony of a virtuous heart and self-approving conscience.

I told you it was easy," HARV said. "True, but you say that about everything." "That's because everything is easy for me." "Everything but humility." "No, that's easy, too. I just choose not to practice it.

Queenie was devoted to careless name-dropping, scattering the details of her privileged upbringing without the faintest hint of modesty or embarrassment (though, after a while Maddie began to realize she only did it with people she liked or people she detested--those who didn't mind and those she didn't care about--anyone in between, or who might have been offended, she was more cautious with).

i felt ashamed. i stared down at the ground and stood very still and very quietly.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Self-importance is an exaggerated sense of one's own value or importance. Now listen up, you are important. But, you are not too important or all-important. Yes! no human is indispensable. Thus, never feel too important or all-important no matter your family background, political or social status and regardless of your of education/qualification/intelligence/wealth/riches.

Self-importance is an exaggerated sense of one's own value or importance. Now listen up, you are important. But, you are not too important or all-important. Yes! no human is indispensable. Thus, never feel too important or all-important regardless of your level of education/qualification/intelligence/wealth/riches/family background.

Rather in a gutter than on a pedestal.

If there's one quality I hate in a woman, it's modesty. Besides making me, with my trombone mouth, feel vaguely uncouth, I think it's a chickenshit response to the demands of the marketplace, or the universe, not that I can tell them apart.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

Lots of people don't talk about their military service.... A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat.