52 Quotes About Modest

The arrogant generally deem the humble ignorant.

Thanks to their egos, instead of simply saying that they do not know, some people sometimes try very hard to remember something they know they have never known.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

Some people are so arrogant that they remain arrogant even when they are on top of a mountain or in the middle of an ocean.

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more.

It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

- Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

A truly big man is always try to be a small man.