Quotes About Modesty

he had said it in such a manner that they were fairly certain he would never make what he had done a subject of boasting. There

I see there is a good deal of grandiloquence in my book — my friends and foes have told me. I think it must be true, for there is a good deal of grandiloquence in me — and in nature also: I saw a sunset last evening that was a gross imposition upon modesty.

Beware of thinking all your own that you possess, and of living accordingly. It is a mistake that many people who have credit fall into.

Out of the corner of his eye Wycliff saw the little maid's cheeks turn pink. He'd forgotten how adorably prudish and modest English women could be.

Swimming naked in broad daylight is a good incentive not to linger.

You never think your life will be that big.    Just

All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!

Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!

Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!

Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!

The moment he sees a glimpse of underwear, he will be officially in Sicko Land and he will be forced to make some kind of noise. Flushing, coughing, heavy footsteps. Talk to himself out loud. The moment he sees anything that in anyway will be considered a sexual act between. . . "Stani, the bins are done!" he yells out.

Having boys around camp is hard. You have to be on the alert. Boys, for example, like exposing themselves. They walk back from the shower blocks with their towels around them, and the next minute either someone flashes at you, or one of his friends grabs his towel off him and makes a run for it. I have to say it's a bit traumatic at times, not knowing when the next penis will appear.

The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has reached the acme of impudence.

She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

Says Sullivan, "Those guys used to get together in the van and put their hands all together and then Paul would say, 'Where are we going?' And the band would go, 'To the middle!' And he'd go, 'Which middle?' And they'd go, 'The very middle!' " But it was all false modesty. The Replacements, it seemed, secretly believed in themselves and yet adopted a loser persona to insulate themselves against failure.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?

I am just a low, uncouth person. I'm a low-type sort of man." Some

A celebrity once-removed, driving his groupies agog, but then not flaunting it, and not asking for it, either.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine

Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.