Quotes about Modesty
A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.
— Thomas a Kempis
I have zero ego.
— Ryan Fitzpatrick
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We grow small trying to be great.
— E Stanley Jones
Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.
— Gordon Hinckley
Millions of people look at the achievements of Henry Ford, after he has arrived, and envy him, because of his good fortune, or luck, or genius, or whatever it is that they credit for Ford's fortune. Perhaps one person in every hundred thousand knows the secret of Ford's success, and those who do know are too modest, or
— Napoleon Hill
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
— John Milton
rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."b
— Tony Evans
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.
— Anonymous
There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vendor of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh; and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom of fifteen to a lady of fifty.
— Samuel Johnson
The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
— Khalil Gibran