Quotes About Modesty

Wash out your ego every once in a while — cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

...the height of sophistication is simplicity.

I glanced at the business card before tucking it away: Deyan Dembeliev, telephone… Just a name and a phone number. Only extremely famous or extremely modest people could use such cards. Demby was not the latter.

She put her two hands over her ribs to hold her heart in place and also out of modesty to quiet its immodest thud.

In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.

I was just an average bloke. It was the media that tried to transform me into a heroic figure. But I've learned through the years, as long as you don't believe all that rubbish about yourself, you can't come to too much harm.' - Sir Edmund Hillary

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul's possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

We've been turned away from our bodies, shamefully taught to ignore them, to strike them with that stupid sexual modesty; we've been victims of the old fool's game: each one will love the other sex. I'll give you your body and you'll give me mine.

I write, I extend my hand; without my knowing it, this is already a prayer, I extend my hand to you so that you will exist because you do exist, beyond my fingers, your fingers, without my knowing it this is already a response, already I draw to my side the site for you, with one hand I call the other hand, it is in this modest, all-powerful way that I begin to save what is lost. When I write I ask for your hand.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

To be a simple nothing and an ordinary nobody. Is the greatest thing you can be.

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

Hump for humbleness, dump for dirts.

write for the noblest end, to inform and instruct mankind; over whom I may, without breach of modesty, pretend to some superiority, from the advantages I received by conversing so long among the

you're a diabolical little pyro, aren't you? He blushed modestly.

scarf wrapped around her head.

In Bollywood, they like to put us in short clothes. And I am very shy; I don't like wearing revealing stuff, though my image is such. Unfortunately, it's a body-obsessed industry.

I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.

I was always trying to look modest and natural. I don't like women who come into the lab and you see immediately that it took them two hours to dress in the morning.