(97 quotes found)
“Humility, modesty, nonviolence, forbearance, honesty, service to guru, purity (of thought, word, and deed), steadfastness, self-control; and / Aversion towards sense objects, absence of ego, constant reflection on the agony and suffering inherent in birth, old age, disease, and death.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.”
Harriet Martineau
“In all modesty, I am a hard man to discredit.”
Stetson Kennedy
“Great discoveries and improvement invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.”
Alexander Graham Bell
“The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.”
William Hazlitt
“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“Modesty and chastity are important values for us and we are not giving them up.”
Antonio Sciortino
