Quotes about Modesty

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.

The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment. Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell.

Culturally it means a return from the newspaper and the radio to the book, from feverish activity to unhurried leisure, from dispersion to concentration, from sensationalism to reflection, from virtuosity to art, from snobbery to modesty, from extravagance to moderation.

It is much better to take a little every day than some days to abstain wholly and on others to surfeit oneself.

That is, humility should be as much a part of us as the clothes we wear. We wouldn't think of appearing before other people without our clothes. And we shouldn't think of appearing before other people without deliberately clothing ourselves with an attitude of humility.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful.

The more powerful a person truly is, the less they need to promote it. And the stronger a leader is, the less they need to announce it.

Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none join in fear of the gods?