Humility And Modesty Quotes
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Humility And Modesty Quotes & Sayings
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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.
— Maya Angelou
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
— Tariq Ramadan
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
— Sri Chinmoy
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
— Tony Dungy
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
— William Safire
The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
— Margery Williams
One way of keeping your dreams alive is to keep it to yourself. It can save you and protect your dreams to a greater extent.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
— Francois Guizot
this burden weighs so heavilywhen our demons we must carry
clinging to this fleeting breath
dying for a fighting chance — The Phantoms
It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
— Jeremy Taylor
A great man is always willing to be little.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I took a deep breath. The alligators were halfway up to my ass. Might as well let 'em keep climbing.
— Suzanne Johnson
Give me some credit for the hell I've paid.
— Shawn Colvin
At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
— Pearl S. Buck
Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
— Victor Borge
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
— Benjamin Whichcote
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
— Demades
Modesty is humility expressed in dress.
— C.J. Mahaney
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
— David Halberstam
Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.
— Andy Paula
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
— Paulo Coelho
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
— Lord Chesterfield
If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.
— Brian MacLearn
