Modest Quotes

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Be smart, but never show it.

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Modesty is the key to success

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.

Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.

True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.

There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.