Quotes About Modesty

I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.

I am not comfortable wearing a bikini in real life, why should I agree to wear one on screen? A swimsuit becomes like a dress when you wrap a sarong over it, so there was no objection to that.

I don't want to write a hagiography on myself. To me, that is just a waste.

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.

I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.

A willingness to be pleased requires modesty and even innocence--easy to deride as mawkish and sentimental.

To be simple is no small matter.

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.

Cela rend modeste de voyager. On voit quelle petite place on occupe dans le monde.

At that moment, I sensed a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling, for I felt free of all guilt." Who was he to judge? Who was he "to have [his] own thoughts in this matter"? Well, he was neither the first nor the last to be ruined by modesty.

Susan cast her eyes down. Demure—it was a word that Ilene had heard before but never quite gotten. But that was what she was seeing right now. How many men would weaken—had weakened—at such a move? It

Yes. In the meantime, arm yourself." "I'll pick up a gun when I get back," Myron said. "No need to wait. There is a thirty-eight under your seat." Terrific. Myron reached under his seat, felt the bump. "Anything else I need to know?" "I birdied the last hole. Shot two under par for the round." "Talk about burying the lead." "I was trying to be modest." "I

As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest.

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I'm always going to stay humble.

I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.

I think I had become over-confident in my approach towards my work and with people around me. I admit that I'd started sounding pompous and self-obsessed.

I always stay humble. I don't act funny towards nobody.

I would never deny the importance of the media, but I wouldn't go out of the way to splash my pictures all over town. I'd rather let my work do the talking.

I have a few toys. But I live very simply.

I've absolutely fought against having to be half-naked to sell a track.

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.