Quotes about Modesty

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.

I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Do not jockey for position or try to prove your importance to others with a lot of hollow, empty boasting and self-promotion. Instead, have a modest opinion of yourself, and learn to recognize the outstanding contributions that others have to impart.

I do not wish you to believe that I assume to be any better than others who have gone before me.