Quotes About Modesty

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

I enjoy playing football, and that's about it. I'm no-one special.

I don't see myself as somebody special. I just see myself as Aaron, the same guy I've been all my life.

I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

I was definitely not the cocky kid. I was probably on the other end of the spectrum - I was quiet. I remember a time when there was a skills competition, and I think I was five, and I was so nervous to even compete that I chose not to do the skating part.

Don't believe your own press, and don't give speeches.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.

When somebody used to compliment me, I'd spend 10 minutes trying to talk them out of it.

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

My mother was a very natural woman. She never spoiled herself, never wore make-up, and wore modest jewellery, but she always had a few special items for when she wanted to feel like a lady. One of those special items - and I remember it because it seemed so elegant - was her Guerlain powder.

I think one of the biggest things is I wasn't spoiled as a kid. I got what I needed. I didn't always get what I wanted. But it's good to have what you need.

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.