Modest
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble. Small, moderate in size. (especially of behaviour or clothing) Avoiding being sexually suggestive.
Example sentence: My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.
Humble
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; lowly; weak; modest.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used reflexively.
Example sentence: The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.