Quotes About Modesty

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

I've been fortunate over the years to have been on good teams and as a result I've been able to score some goals but I wouldn't say I'm great at it.

While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble, many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

Some women need to treat their body more like a temple not a bathroom...

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; 9 likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, 10 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness...with good works. -1 Timothy 2:8-10

First rule of cleavage: it's not how low you go, but where and when you show.

Silence gives the proper grace to women

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the un-admitted desire to undress.

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

One thing the Bible makes perfectly clear is that God absolutely hates pride and loves humility.

Ellen followed his progress, thinking of all those young men who believed it was fashionable to wear their pants hanging half off their butts and loose enough to fit an entire basketball team. They should see the way a real man wore jeans.