Quotes about Modesty

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

My dear Watson, said [Sherlock Holmes], I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

To underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

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

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

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked together.

whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

If your abilities are only mediocre, modesty is mere honesty; but if you possess great talents, it is hypocrisy.

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

Being humble matters.

I'm trying to... stay humble and keep doing what I do.