Quotes About Modesty

I wouldn't go as far to say that anything that I've done is timeless.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Timidity has followed me throughout the years.

I want nothing for myself from being Governor. I don't take a salary or PEIA, I don't need business connections or the next hot tip. I drive myself everywhere I go, without taking a dime from the state.

I don't give myself titles. I don't think of that.

I've never been one of those guys who wants to put up titles and championships and run around and brag.

I prefer to be out of the spotlight, to be honest. I've always been that kind of personality.

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.

If a man wants to objectify a woman, he will do it even if she's clad from head to toe.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

No schoolgirl modesty here! Did I bring you to my house, and teach you the ways of my collection, to see you colour? Well, no more of that. Here is work, not leisure. You will soon forget the substance, in the scrutiny of the form.

Be simple and sincere.

I'm no one you want to learn from.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

My flesh was not for feasting on

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

I had my trousers on at all times.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.