modesty quotes

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

“Modesty is the conscience of the body.”

— Honore de Balzac

“I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer