lack of vanity Quotes

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

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.

I don't think of myself as a star. An actress is nothing remarkable.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.

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.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

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.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.

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

Be modest, be humble, be simple.

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

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

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.

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