There are the truly modest out there…

• those who don’t recognize or take credit for their accomplishments
• those who don’t boast
• those who humbly accept praise
• those who lift up others and praise others above themselves
• those who are humble
• those who are unpretentious
• etc

and there are those who try so very hard to portray the image of modesty that there is something immodest about their modesty:  it announces itself.