Quotes About Modesty

If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin.

Love has a modesty of its own, whose lines are boldly drawn, and whose rules are stern.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

keep your mouth shut and your skirt long, be modest and don't have any fucking opinions except those of the majority groupthink in that moment. The reputation economy is another instance of the blanding of our society, even though the enforcement of groupthink in social media has only increased anxiety and paranoia, because those who eagerly approve of the reputation economy are, of course, also the most scared.

But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before his death he wrote: "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Are you a hero, actually?" "Um, no. Not as such. Not at all, really. Even less than that, in fact.

I wouldn't say I'm the best, she said, but I can't think of anyone better, I have to say.

There is modesty, and there is propriety. The former is a natural instinct, given to us when Adam and Eve left the garden and realized their nakedness. The latter is merely a social construct. Although as human beings we wish to consort with our fellows, and therefore yield to their judgments in matters of dress and behavior, surely we may break the rules of propriety when they interfere with the important matters of our lives, so long as modesty is not thereby wounded.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.

I certainly am not doing nudity because I think lightly of it - I don't think it's something that one should just jump into without thinking about it.

June cooks, I cook and we have a girl who comes in to clean three days a week. We like that way of living. I suppose a lot of people think we can afford more, but we like it simple.

I was always taught that you don't think you are anything special 'cause there's always someone who is more special than you. Just be the best you that you can be.

When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

I've always been the same since I was a kid, maybe it was the way I was brought up, but I've never liked arrogant people.

Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.

If I'm too cocky or too arrogant, it's like, 'Ugh.' But if you're too on the other side, you take away some of those other emotional aspects, and I just kinda like to have a balance.

It's not my habit to kiss and tell. I've never done it.

We don't kiss in public. It's not done.

I don't kiss and tell.

From the time I entered the industry, I have always been clear about certain things - no short clothes, no kissing, no bikinis. Nobody comes to me with such roles. And I have no dearth of work.