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Quotes About Modesty

The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.
~ Nicolas Maduro
I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.
~ Alexander Alekhine
I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.
~ Rob Portman
I don't have the ability to be a diva. I can't flaunt. I don't have that kind of stage presence. I think of myself as just a band member.
~ Christine McVie
I like Converse on a guy. I can't stand flip-flops or anything too over-the-top, flashy, or bright. Nothing too bulky. I'm a Converse girl myself, so I feel like we can bond over our love of simplicity and comfort.
~ Camilla Luddington
My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.
~ Rihanna
Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.
~ Mayim Bialik
If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.
~ P. T. Barnum
I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.
~ Ruth Westheimer
It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
~ Michel de Montaigne
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]
~ Plautus
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
~ Prince Charles
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
~ Robin Hobb
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
~ Ellen G. White
The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.
~ Evan Esar
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed.
~ Albert Martin
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
~ Ann Landers
No man is great if he thinks he is.
~ Will Rogers
Small things make base men proud.
~ William Shakespeare
Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.
~ Henry Edward Manning
I'm hardly the sexiest man in the world. I'm a bit of a geek.
~ Jamie Campbell Bower