Seneca the Younger Quotes

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

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

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.

Modesty is my best quality.