Quotes About Modesty

A person who is innocent is extremely humble.

I absolutely love low-key restaurants.

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Gibbs is perhaps the most brilliant person most people have never heard of. Modest to the point of near-invisibility, he passed virtually the whole of his life, apart from three years spent studying in Europe, within a three-block area bounded by his house and the Yale campus in New Haven, Connecticut. For his first ten years at Yale he didn't even bother to draw a salary.

It has sometimes been said that prudery reached such a height in the nineteenth century that people took to dressing their piano legs in little skirts lest they rouse anyone to untimely passion. Thomas

If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.

Noble deeds are most estimable when hidden.

One ought not talk about oneself, it may hide Jesus from view.

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.

O fim da arte é doar somente. (...) Apagar-se no anonimato, Ocultando nossa passagem Pela vida, como à paisagem Oculta a nuvem com recato.

I was evidently expected, for when I got near the door I faced a cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peasant dress--white undergarment with a long double apron, front, and back, of coloured stuff fitting almost too tight for modesty. When I came close she bowed and said, The Herr Englishman? Yes, I said, Jonathan Harker. She smiled, and gave some message

she feared he would never profit by it for it was not the fashion to be modest and quiet and kind-hearted.

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest He died.

Don;t blush, for God's sake. You and your blushing - you're like some Victorian maiden.

I stared at Buddy while he unzipped his chino pants and took them off and laid them on a chair and then took off his underpants that were made of something like nylon fishnet. 'They're cool,' he explained, 'and my mother says they wash easily.

Humility is endless.

Even today, after all that has happened, I keep this scarf wrapped around my hair because of men's interest in me. It is not because of faith any more; I still believe in Allah, don't misunderstand me, but I do not think Allah is a fashion designer. He observes people's hearts, not their clothes.

If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

a vital component of charity and grace is the ability not to draw attention to one's possession of them.