Quotes About Modesty

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My power will be in humility.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.

I have no power, and that's what's so humbling.

Never mistaken humility for foolishness, nor pride for power.

And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

Small things make base men proud.

Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

A maiden never bold;Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motionBlush'd at herself.

Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest.

The trumpet of his own virtues.

She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will and yet was never loud.

As chaste as unsunn'd snow.

Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.

Modest doubt is call'dThe beacon of the wise, the tent that searchesTo the bottom of the worst.

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.