Quotes About Modesty

Humility is a super-important factor in all of our lives, and I try to remind myself every evening in front of the mirror, 'Just calm down.'

I try my best to keep my feet on the floor and stay humble and let my ability do the talking.

I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was.

I try to get better every day, and I think the hard work has helped turn me into a better person and not someone who would get a big head.

I love coverage. My ideal dress would be a turtleneck that goes all the way up to my chin, and then sleeves that go past my fingers. And then the dress goes all the way to the floor, and you see the very tips of my toes.

I don't throw lavish parties or nothing like that - I just want a bed and a TV.

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll be a very happy man.

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

I don't get recognized too much, which is cool because, you know, I don't want people to be overwhelmed.

You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules; it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty!

If by how you dress, you are saying to guys, "Hey, look at my body," why would a guy want to get to know you?

We all seek comfort, and I don't pretend to want to live in squalor.

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Besides, as Ma had told her innumerable times, a lady should never indicate in mixed company that she had limbs beneath her skirt.

She smiled with a kind of abashed formality, embarrassed by revelation.

I'm not good at talking about myself.

If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?