Quotes about Modesty
I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.
- Moby
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.
- Bruce Lee
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
- Livy
He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
- Thomas a Kempis
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
- Karl Barth
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren
Be humble, or you'll stumble.
- DL Moody
He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
- Francis de Sales
We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
- John Ortberg
Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.
- Thomas a Kempis
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
- Mark Twain