William Shenstone Quotes

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

... a modest man. He has every reason to be modest.

I am a humble person.

I'm a very humble guy.

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

I know, it's amazing, but I never feel like I have done anything. When people say that, it makes me uncomfortable because I'm not that kind of person. I just go out there and try to do my job.

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

I'm not the type of person who enjoys the limelight.