Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.

I can’t talk about myself that way. Whatever I did before was just in line with my work. I can’t be saying I, I, I all the time.

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

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

I'll downplay myself before I compliment myself.

The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

I'm a humble guy, okay?

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

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

You never toot your own horn.

I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

Sometimes, I get so annoyed when other people brag. And sometimes, I know that I'm better than that or I've got something better in the works; I don't say anything. I just say, 'Really? That's great.'

I'd be pretty saddened to hear anyone say, 'Yeah, listen to this... God, I'm awesome, the way this all sits together,' about their own work.

I was brought up not to brag. I've always disliked people who do.

I don't like to praise myself - that I am the quickest, that I am the strongest, that I am the most technical guy - I never do that.

Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.