Quotes About Modesty

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

Many people, women especially, she had observed, responded to a compliment by explaining what they had—or hadn't done—to merit it.

"You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. "Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life."

You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small,' I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. 'Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.' I got all of these sayings at my tongue's end, used to go through the streets of Chicago muttering them to myself.

Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..." "You've never seen a guy with his shirt off?" "Ha, ha. Very funny. Believe me, you don't have anything I haven't seen before." "Wanna bet?" he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. Isabel walks in at that exact moment. "Whoa, Alex. Please keep your pants on.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Remember humility on your way up

Believe in yourself, trust in your intuition and in front of all eyes be humble.

Next to the humble man, we find wisdom.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

Love's humility is love's true pride.

Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

Love knows nothing of modesty.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

He remembered that even Socrates, for all the popular charm of his mock-modesty and his true geniality, had ceased after a while to be tolerable. Without such a manner to grace his method, Socrates would have had a very brief time indeed. The Duke recoiled from what he took to be another pitfall. He almost smelt hemlock.