Quotes About Modesty

My life is a very simple life thank you

If you're really good, they'd taught him at Quantico, you don't have to be arrogant.

Not, of course, as much as Julia Roberts or David Beckham or Robbie Williams, but he found he wasn't really bothered about that. He was, after all, basically a simple, modest person at heart. Doing a short but honest day's work, doing it well and earning a revoltingly large amount of money would suit him very nicely.

There was no dignified way to answer a question about your underwear.

rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."b

in the arena of economic policy, the citizens of today's democracies have learned altogether too much modesty. We have been advised that these are matters for experts: that economics and its policy implications are far beyond the understanding of the common man or woman—a point of view enforced by the increasingly arcane and mathematical language of the discipline.

The characteristic tone of the '60s was that of overweening confidence: we knew just how to fix the world. It was this note of unmerited arrogance that partly accounts for the reactionary backlash that followed; if the Left is to recover its fortunes, some modesty will be in order.

If my face is uncovered, a man—even someone I do not know—may fall into sin. Consequently, the scarves are necessary, essential. For life, I am wrapped as if in death. Why not have the man cover his eyes instead?

I need to speak to Roisin," he said. Finn rubbed his jaw. "Then I suggest you get off my girl's lap. And put some clothes on, man. You're indecent.

There are no shy women,"announced the count. "The modest way they cast thier eyes down merely his their naivety." I was fast coming to the conclusion that there was no need to feel afraid of him. He was only a self-satisfied old git who hated women and liked the sound of his own voice.

The smartest person in the room never says they're the smartest person in the room.

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 don't talk about money.

Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

never brag about your expertise. Instead, wait for the opportunity to showcase your skills and watch all the jaws drop.

La impresión espartana que transmitía correspondería a su naturaleza o a su bolsillo.

There's a world I could do without: public underwear showings. There was a time in my lifetime when you had to open a J.C. Penney catalog to see people in their underwear. Now it's like the national pastime, hanging out in your underwear. I don't see why they have to pay anyone to model it.

I'm at the mall the other day and there's a 'brow bar.' To get your eyebrows shaped inside the makeup department. Right by the door where everyone is coming and going, can you imagine? There is no feminine mystique left. Remember how we were taught not to have our Mary Janes so polished that a boy could see up our dresses? Now they wear their underwear instead of clothes. No need for boys to peek any longer.

The goal is to follow the path with patient, modest acceptance. Indeed, the goal is only to follow the path, for there is no "there" to get to; there is only the path, and the job of treading upon it as well as we can.

It has taken her twenty years to learn what she is made of. And that modesty has made her what she was always destined to become, the heroine of her own tale?the woman who will be at last, before it is too late, the great love of one man's life and the salvation of her own.

I don't want to make anyone else look stupid. That's a privilege I reserve for myself.

Finishing first is nothing to brag about.

I intended to convey that our charming host and hostess were superior to the follies of fashion, and preferred leading a simple and wholesome life to gadding about to twopenny-halfpenny tea-drinking afternoons, and living above their incomes.

Honesty, not modesty, is a virtue.