Quotes About Modesty

What's the big deal in doing a topless shoot provided it's done in good taste? Our temples too have topless figures carved on them.

I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off... I've done a lot of photo shoots lately for the press coming up with 'Immortals' and 'Breaking Dawn,' and every photographer wants to get the topless shot. We've really had to be choosy and not do that for every magazine. I've actually been trying to keep my clothes on more.

With my skin, I have to avoid direct contact with the sun, so that, combined with my mom being conservative, meant I grew up wearing stockings under shorts and long sleeves under tank tops. It was kind of embedded in me that I was supposed to be covering up.

I'm a die-hard lover of high-waisted skirts with crop tops.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination.

I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy.

He liked it for its modesty among the bigger efforts. Like a human soul should be in the world, among elephants, galaxies.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

In an age of million-dollar mansions for God, it's hard to imagine that our God prefers tents.

Francis de Sales, a sixteenth-century bishop, said, "We often say that we are nothing, that we are misery itself and the refuse of the world, but we would be very sorry if anyone took us at our word or told others that we are really such as we say.

With perfect and unyielding faith, With steadfastness, respect, and courtesy, With modesty and conscientiousness, Work calmly for the happiness of others.

Handsome young men should not act as if they know it.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

I'm just a guy. I get treated like I'm famous but I don't take it seriously. I take the time people take out to check me out very, very seriously.

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.

We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.

Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

She'd learned so many ways to be modest, it had become a source of pride.

A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.