Modest Behavior Quotes

I don't think that I'm modest by any means, but I'm also not an exhibitionist.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

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

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

I always stay humble. I don't act funny towards nobody.

The more simple, the more republican we are in our manners, the more rational dignity we shall acquire.

I think of myself as a shy, modest, relatively unassuming person.

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.

True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.

I look at the likes of Darren Fletcher and Scott Brown and they're just normal people. They are humble and work away to become the best they can. That's the path I've tried to follow.

My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

I don't know how smart I am. I just try to be what I am. I hope I'm modest. I think that's a desirable trait.

Humble things become the humble.

The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without fear, slow or rapid according to the exigencies of the moment; that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune.

I'm a low-profile guy.

We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.