Quotes about Modesty

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.

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

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."b

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.

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.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.