modesty quotes

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I mean, I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I’m me.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

I wouldn’t wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don’t think it’s necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

I’m no genius.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‚the new modesty.‘

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

My mother was a very natural woman. She never spoiled herself, never wore make-up, and wore modest jewellery, but she always had a few special items for when she wanted to feel like a lady. One of those special items – and I remember it because it seemed so elegant – was her Guerlain powder.

We are so very ‚umble.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.