Quotes About Modesty

Because life's too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in.

You don't want modesty," Maya Angelou once said. "You want humility. Humility

At a certain moment, women in cultures that glamorize their images and suffocate their minds, that set them on pedestals while requiring their silence and modesty, cease to be either silent or modest.

The most wise are those who know how little they know!" They

I don't know everything. No one does, and only the foolish seek to.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and the arbiter of good taste and modesty.

It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.

Strapless bras? Well let's just say, I'm the kind of girl who likes things sufficiently strapped.

Uncle Eddie admitted with a shrug, still holding her and beaming. "It's good to see you, little one." He scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Lei non è particolarmente sveglio, eh? Crede dunque che siano i libri 'a messaggio' a poter cambiare un individuo? Invece sono quelli che lo cambiano di meno. No, i libri che segnano e che trasformano sono gli altri, i libri di desiderio, di piacere, i libri di genio e soprattutto i libri di bellezza. [...] Non si è mai più gli stessi dopo aver letto un libro, anche se modesto.

I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

Chinese people like to do things with a low profile; they do not like to expose their wealth.

When you're accustomed to wealth, you don't show it, right? That's why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it's almost like, 'Don't show wealth - that's crass.'

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation.

I have never had the need or thrill for being wealthy.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.

When women wear jeans people are tempted to pay attention to what is beyond it thus forcing them to do undesirable things.

It was not appropriate for me to wear anything like a bustier or to be sexy. It was big hair and hoop earrings and jean jackets.