Mesut Ozil Quotes

I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.

Even when we had new clothes, we were told not to wear them. You just didn't draw attention to yourself. Showing off was the worst thing you could do. We could put the clothes in the drawers - but not wear them.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

I'm never a flashy type of person.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

Modesty is my best quality.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

I'm not much of a show-off.

I don't go for the flash and panache.

When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

I've never been a much of a glamour girl.

I have no great message to the world.

I see no point in talking about myself unnecessarily.

It's easy to be loud, outspoken, and play to the gallery. It's difficult to underplay one's self.

For me, generally speaking, I don't like to make a big deal out of stuff.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.