Quotes About Modesty

I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.

I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.

Happy are the unentitled! Expecting the applause of others is a fool's enterprise! Do yourself a favor and assume nothing. If you go unnoticed, you won't be surprised. If you are noticed, you can celebrate.

His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.

The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

Modesty is a learned adaptation. It's stuck on like decals. As soon as life slams a modest person against the wall, that modesty will fall off faster than a G-string will fall off a stripper.

You can't look prim and righteous wearing a microscopic miniskirt and mile-high heels. Well it's pretty hard, anyway.

The practice does lose its charm if overused—

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.

In his experience, true leaders seldom had or needed flamboyant titles.

He who exalts himself shall be humbled; and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions"—the margin-of-safety idea applied to personal finance.21

Staying humble about your forecasting powers

Abel Becket had never seen as much of his wife's breasts as Mrs. Loring saw fit to present to the world.

Modesty... consists in pretending not to think better of ourselves and our belongings than of the man we are speaking to and his belongings.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: Oh, but you forget the good God. Apparently they conceive of the Deity add a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes.

If I have a reputation for anything, it's for keeping a low profile.

I refused 'Chatuskone,' as I was required to wear revealing outfits and enact a few intimate scenes, which I was not comfortable with.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

I believe in being able to reserve things to yourself. That's the way I was brought up.

I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it.