Quotes About Modesty

Love yourself enough, but not to the point of arrogance

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Never brag, never boast. You know what you are worth. And if you really are, people will acknowledge.

Be humble but always remember your worth and be confident enough to defend it, always.

If I had a dollar for every time someone told me I was handsome I would have exactly one dollar...Thanks mom!!!!

If sex were shoes, I'd wear you out. But I wouldn't wear you out in public.

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady

Hay que ser más modesto cuando uno se enfrenta, cuando uno se confiesa a sí mismo, cuando uno se acerca a su última verdad, que aún puede llegar a ser más decisiva que la voz de la conciencia, porque ésta sufre de afonías, de imprevistas ronqueras, que a menudo le impiden ser audible.

Complete abstention may be much easier than moderation.

After years of brushing up against all kinds of people in the public eye, I've learned that great leaders are first of all great servants—and that great service is modest, understated, in speech and action. Understatement is self-restraint, and self-restraint is hardly a sign of weakness. On the contrary, wisely used, few things carry more power.

Never leave the impression that you're the hero or the smartest

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.

being, of living, and of dressing, the pleasures and the wants of yesterday are to him the pleasures and wants of tomorrow. Rich or poor, he puts on every morning the same woollen cloth, and lays it aside only when he has worn it entirely out, in order to purchase another

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.

I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.

Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents)

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.