Quotes About Modesty

Better you should know your honest than over-guess your abilities and lose control".

I know not," I said modestly. "But I think she must not, for she caught me with an easy smile, then stole away without a word. Like dew in dawn's pale light." "Like a dream upon waking,

No demuestres humildad a menos que la sientas.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

Why you? - (...) I'm the best. - Modest of you. - I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

False humility is better than no humility at all.

I'm a grinder. I am not called to speak at fancy conventions in five-star hotels. The governor has not offered me black robes and elevated me to the bench. I am not interviewed by CNN to comment on the latest trial of the century. And I am not rich.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

Does she really need that many pairs of kneesocks? Aren't kneesocks just chastity belts for your shins?

If you speak, say little and speak low; don't shout. Truly, this is a most useful saying! — St. Bernardine of Siena,

This was all given to me, he seemed to say. My body, my face, my height, my strength. I did not ask for it, I did not make it, I did not build it. I did not fight for it. This is a gift, for which I say my daily thanks as I wash and comb my hair, a gift I do not abuse or think of again as I go through my day. I am not proud of it, nor am I humbled by it. It does not make me arrogant or vain, but neither does it make me falsely modest or meek.

en cuanto a que son humildes, gente abatida y esclava,

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

And you must not go up to My altar on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.í

Make linen undergarments to cover their bare flesh, extending from waist to thigh.

Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—a stranger, and not your own lips.

If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.

and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty,

Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,