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Quotes About Modesty

Hay que tener cuidado con la soberbia, porque es más dañosa para el entendimiento que la ignorancia.
~ Unknown
I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.
~ Steve Young
The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab
~ Angelina Jolie
Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Beauty is the flower of chastity.
~ Zeno of Elea
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
~ Robert Stack
What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?
~ Boonaa Mohammed
Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through.
~ Elie Tahari
Modest humility is beauty's crown.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Style is to see beauty in modesty.
~ Andree Putman
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
~ Demades
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.
~ Laurence Sterne
Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.
~ Fanny Kemble
I'm very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine.
~ Eva Green
Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.
~ George D. Prentice
Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Humility is the best dress you can wear
~ Treasure Stitches
But sometimes that can make a girl so much more appealing. The beauty who doesn't know she's beautiful.
~ Unknown
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
~ Oscar Wilde
I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'
~ Jeb Bush
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
~ Russell Baker
Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.
~ Elisabeth Elliot