Quotes About Modesty

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

I really like the idea of modesty. By the time I got into music, I was already wearing the scarf all the time, and it's really personal to me, my Muslim beliefs, so I decided to keep it and find a way to work around it. I don't see it as a restriction or limitation - I can still be me and get into music and be an entertainer.

I don't like to celebrate my own achievements.

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

Sexiness is in what you cover, not what you show. When you are covered, you leave a lot to people's imagination. People see the mystery in my eyes and find it sexy.

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?

There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

I'm not a prude. On the set, they called me 'Butt Naked.'

What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?

In the next minute, I will be entirely naked. In the minute after that, fully dressed.

I don't think you would want to see all five Go-Go's naked - I think we would be scary.

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.

I don't want anyone seeing me naked.

I couldn't think of anything worse than getting naked in front of the entire world, it must take a lot of confidence to do it.

Compared to other people, I am not that narcissistic. Sometimes, I don't even plan all that I wear.

I don't overact, so people think that I naturally act well. I underplay my roles, and that has worked for me.

I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people.

Don't boast, her father had told her. Accomplish. Then let others notice and react appropriately.

A slave should be sincere, loyal, discreet, clean, modest, honest, graceful, intelligent (that is able to learn what is required for her position), respectful of herself and others, observant, attentive, and ethical.

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.

On the other hand, and as if by way of compensation, religion teaches people to be extremely self-centered and conceited. It assures them that god cares for them individually, and it claims that the cosmos was created with them specifically in mind. This explains the supercilious expression on the faces of those who practice religion ostentatiously: pray excuse my modesty and humility but I happen to be busy on an errand for god.

There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics