Humility Quote by Derek Walcott Download Open image “Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.” — Derek Walcott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humility Modesty Performance Possible
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here—… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.” — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But, like all indulgences that are valued not just for their product but for their process, the sento will never entirely disappear. For in… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Humility and Trustworthiness are not rooted only in Presentation, Voice modulation or Nice Jorgan but in Actions and Intentions that speak louder than you… — Venkat Gandhi Copy Share Image
I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“I am waiting for the meek to be blessed and inherit the earth... without taxes” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Rukmini Devi was an icon for all the Bharat Natyam students at Kalakshetra. I grew up watching her at dance school and I associate… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
