Quotes About Modesty

The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

Sometimes I'll go with a long hijab, or sometimes I'll wear my scarf and go somewhat business-y with a blazer. Every day is something new.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I am neither such a great songwriter or such a great singer that the world must hear my album. There's just no point to make.

I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.

Why can't we actually sing and get respected as good singers and songwriters without having our boobs and butt hanging out?

I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.

I've never sought to be known or recognized by people.

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

I've never really sought out publicity.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

I want to stay humble and not sound cocky. But at the same time I don't want to be the little high schooler.

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

I've never offered coupons or deals. I'm not fancy enough to do soup or salads, hot breakfasts, or smoothies.

A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance.

Girls...only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.

Appropriateness of style and clothing.

Remember, also, that every time you open your mouth in the presence of a person who has an abundance of knowledge, you display to that person, your exact stock of knowledge, or your LACK of it! Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Every time you open your mouth in the presence of a person who has an abundance of knowledge, you display to that person your exact stock of knowledge or your lack of it! Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence. p159

Millions of people look at the achievements of Henry Ford, after he has arrived, and envy him, because of his good fortune, or luck, or genius, or whatever it is that they credit for Ford's fortune. Perhaps one person in every hundred thousand knows the secret of Ford's success, and those who do know are too modest, or

be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so.