Unassuming Nature Quotes

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

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

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

While I can hold my own with great talents and have an opinion in the face of big personalities, I'm just a regular guy. I've accepted my position in life: that I'm never going to be that cool. And I'm okay with that.

I don't think in terms of being a superstar.

I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office

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.

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

I go out of my way to help people, but I don't tell people. Goodness is not about beating your own drum.

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.