Quotes About Modesty

don't seek praise or run from it.

the sage dresses plainly, even though his interior is filled with precious gems.

Be humble. Never put yourself above others or see yourself as superior to anyone.

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.

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

He was a man of such modesty that he never mentioned his own name even when recording the stirring events in which he played so prominent a part.

The old Arab epigram drifted into his mind, that God invented silk so that women could be naked in clothes

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

Why doesn't th' feller who sayz 'I'm no speechmaker,' let it go at that instead o' givin' a demonstration?

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

When wine enters modesty departs.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be insufferable.

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me, a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

We tarnish the luster of our most beautiful actions when we applaud them ourselves.

How many times, have I had to seat women whom I received at audiences next to me, rather than facing me, in order to avoid general embarrassment? Nothing should compel us to suffer such trials. It puts the nerves of men and the modesty of women to a severe test.

I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is ego. - Dhirubhai Ambani

The hadith states that the second sign of wretchedness is a lack of modesty or shame. Among the words revealed to humanity are, "If you feel no shame, do what you will.

The Prophet's wife ??'ishah once said, "The best women were the women of the An??r because modesty did not prevent them from learning the religion.

Hz ?sa ?öyle der: "Kendini yüceltenler alçalt?l?r, kendini alçaltanlar ise yüceltilir

The modesty that theology needs is the recognition that we cannot rationally comprehend God.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in setting a just value on ourselves?neither more nor less.