Quotes About Modesty

Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more!

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

Imajte malo poniznosti.

Los habitantes de Cuévano suelen mirar a su alrededor y después concluir: —Modestia aparte, somos la Atenas de por aquí.

An aunt, who though not a midwife was expert in that kind of work, helped bring forth the child, cleaning his face with butter and, to save money, powdering his thighs with some flour scraped from a crust of bread in lieu of talcum. "So you see, my boy, you come from humble stock," his Aunt Eudore would say, acquainting him of these petty details, and from an early age Jean didn't dare hope for any kind of good fortune in the future.

En qué código, en qué escritura, en qué ciencia había aprendido yo que los prejuicios priman sobre las realidades? ¿Por qué era mejor que otros, sino por mis obras? El hombre de talento debe ser como la muerte, que no reconoce categorías. […] Usted sólo tiene un problema sumo, a cuya lado huelgan todos los otros: adquirir dinero para sustentar la modestia decorosamente. El resto viene por añadidura.

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without it.

In short, if you banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Let's not ask for the stars as well.

Humility. Never announce that you are a knight, simply behave as one. You are better than no one, and no one is better than you.

I was neither capable nor competent to form Christ in another person, to shape a life of discipleship in man, woman or child. That is supernatural work, and I am not supernatural. Mine was the more modest work of Scripture and prayer—helping people listen to God speak to them from the Scriptures and then joining them in answering God as personally and honestly as we could in lives of prayer.

Just tell him to keep his hands to himself and his python in his pants.

Dad liked to self-deprecatingly joke about his career, but Ernie Johnson was a pretty darn good relief pitcher.