Quotes About Modesty

Girls who don't smoke, drink, party every weekend, sleep around, or start drama for attention. YEAH we still exist.

Bi... I'm the best and that's being modest.

Too much work is bad, too much fun is bad. Find that balance in your life, live smart. Live good.

Being humble takes more courage than hauling arrogance.

Least of the lesser goddesses, our powers were so modest they could scarcely ensure our eternities

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

viz., that man should not rashly engage in speculation with false conceptions, and when he is in doubt about anything, or unable to find a proof for the object of his inquiry, he must not at once abandon, reject and deny it; he must modestly keep back,

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

But I get ahead of myself, which is nearly as bad as getting Above Myself.

Shyness is..

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

Young girls need to learn that sexiness isin't about being naked.

pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket with a startled glance, like a prudish but not innocent woman concealing bodily charms which in her excessive modesty she sees as wanton.

Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our "appropriate smallness.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage. Henry the Fifth.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

Teresina went often to confession. She was the despair of Father Ramon. Indeed he had seen that while her knees, her hands, and her lips did penance for an old sin, her modest and provocative eyes, flashing under drawn lashes, laid the foundation for a new one. During

Maybe less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.