Quotes About Modesty

I can't just go out in a T-Shirt and say, 'Hey, today I'm not wearing a bra.'

I'm not the type of guy who goes to members of my team or the other team and says, 'Hey, I'm awesome,' because I can improve in so many ways.

I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.

I don't think too highly of myself, but at the same time, I don't think too lowly of myself.

I'm all about being self-deprecating because I think it's hilarious.

Then first I knew the delight of being lowly; of saying to myself, I am what I am, nothing more.

Hence there dwelt in her eyes an appeal which few hearts could resist. When they met another's they seemed to say: 'I am nobody; but you need not kill me ; I am not pretending to be anybody. I will try to do what you want, but I am not clever. Only I am sorry for it. Be gentle with me.

The injunction is not to hide what you do from others, but to hide it from yourself. The Master would have you not plume yourself upon it, not cherish the thought that you have done it, or confer with yourself in satisfaction over it. You must not count it to your praise. A man must not desire to be satisfied with himself. His right hand must not seek the praise of his left hand.

The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.

Had been bulky men, quietly content, who, in our first youth, had come to grasp our own unremarkableness and had, cheerfully (as if bemusedly accepting a heavy burden), shifted our life's focus; if we would not be great, we would be useful.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

we did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty as immodestly as possible.

Sono cose di cui non ci si vanta, cose che a parlarne farebbero sorridere e che pure richiedono una certa dose di eroismo.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

I am a footballing worker - I am not a star.

I knew two things from my father: keep working hard, stay humble, and someday you'll be OK.

I feel like you gotta stay humble and keep working hard, never get complacent or satisfied.

It's important to stay humble, stay level-headed and keep working hard.

Me, I'm a working-class man, and I go to my job, put in the work, and walk away clean and unscathed, and I like it that way.

There's this working-class guilt - you don't want to be flashy.

It's not been a bad life, and I do know that I could never have been a world champion. All I ever wanted to do was be the best I could with what I had, which wasn't very much, really. And that's what I think I did.

Even when I was at the top, playing in the Champions League final for Liverpool and playing at the World Cup for England, I've never let it go to my head.

This business is a tightrope between ultimate ego and absolute devastation. You could lose. You could get knocked out. You could get in a car accident. I want to deal with the total truth of the situation. When you cross-reference the paths your life might take and modalities that might apply to you, I find I'm more at ease in a humble ground.