Quotes About Modesty

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.

I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily to know about me.

None of us can ever humble ourselves too much.

Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!

As Victorian-era prudishness set in, some upstanding citizens also took to putting coverlets over the instrument's legs out of an exaggerated sense of modesty.

Leg hair was not a problem to American women before the 1920s because the legs of most women were never on public view. When a change in attitude toward recreation, fashion and female emancipation during the prosperous, post-war Jazz Age made it socially acceptable for women of all ages and classes to expose their limbs, modesty regarding the propriety of showing legs was transformed with astonishing rapidity into a dainty self-consciousness regarding "unsightly" hair.

Remember that always dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead.

I do a lot of social service and I don't boast about it. I believe that if you give with one hand, the other hand shouldn't know of it. I don't believe in cheap publicity.

I wear cheap shoes. I don't even wear socks.

I just feel my sexuality is private. I'm very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I've sold millions of records with my clothes on.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

Some people say I'm arrogant or cocky but I'm a down to earth, decent guy.

People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.

I wish you self-esteem so high – you're humble.

Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.

lest her fairness encourage the bad desires of men. Humility became Alli's cocoon

I, who make no other profession, find in myself such infinite depth and variety, that what I have learned bears no other fruit than to make me realize how much I still have to learn. To my weakness, so often perceived, I owe my inclination to coolness in my opinions and any hatred for that aggressiveness and quarrelsome arrogance that believes and trusts wholly in itself, a mortal enemy of discipline and truth.