Quotes About Modesty

Elvis is the soul of discretion.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart: The proud to gain it toils on toils endure, The modest shun it, but to make it sure.

Prudery is a form of selfishness, a means of self-protection made necessary by the strength of one's own desires.

Tobožnja stidljivost i kreposnost oblici su sebi?nosti, tek obi?ni postupci samozaštite koji su potrebni upravo zbog žestine naših vlastitih želja.

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

One potential remedy for human stupidity is a dose of humility. National, religious and cultural tensions are made worse by the grandiose feeling that my nation, my religion and my culture are the most important in the world – hence my interests should come before the interests of anyone else, or of humankind as a whole. How can we make nations, religions and cultures a bit more realistic and modest about their true place in the world?

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Mary Ellen finally gave in to Breanna's pleading, and they bought the latest style in swimwear. Not the kind with stockings and skirts, but the one-piece with the legs halfway up the thighs. She definitely would not wear hers.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

The salvation of the human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human modesty, and in human responsibility. Vaclav Havel

Be humble. Don't brag about your position, possessions, people you know, or places you've traveled. Humility tops the chart as the most admired character trait. Pride and arrogance are the most detestable.

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Just because you don't share it on social media, doesn't mean you're not up to big things. Live it and stay low key. Privacy is everything.

I don't show off. I merely demonstrate my abilities at opportune times." - Skulduggery Pleasant

I don't show off. I merely demonstrate my abilities at opportune times.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.