Quotes About Modesty

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

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

No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.

Honor modesty more than your life.

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty –- I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.

A man who has been through hell does not boast of his virility. He is humble and hides it, if, indeed, it still exists.

You're never as bad as you think you are and certainly never as good. Keep your head about you. Strive every single day to be better than yesterday and even better tomorrow. Don't get caught in the trap of thinking you are something special.

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

Women, who on grounds of modesty alone might be expected to prefer being killed or cured by one of their own sex, prove as incalculable in this as in most other things;

Another iron door, on which was writ,Be not too bold.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are.

Walk not on the earth exultantly; certainly thou wilt never tear the earth open, nor attain the mountains in height.

Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

The greater thou art, the more humble thyself.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

If at first you do succeed — try to hide your astonishment.

Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.