Quotes About Modesty

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

You can have pride in what you do each day," said Sister Yu, "but not arrogance in what you were born with." She

Henry, I'm afraid of the adulation I'm getting. Be severe with me. Don't let me get spoiled. I knew I should live alone as I did before. It is good for one.

Vertu des humbles - acceptation; et cela leur va si bien, à certains, qu'on croit comprendre que leur vie est faite à la mesure de leur âme. Surtout ne pas les plaindre : leur état leur convient ; déplorable ! Ils ne s'aperçoivent plus de la médiocrité, sitôt que ce n'est plus une médiocrité de fortune.

For Alan Turing did not think of himself as placed in a superior category by virtue of his brains, and only insisted upon playing what happened to be his own special part.

there are many out-of-the-way things it is as well to know, but one should never boast of them.

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself." CHARLES SPURGEON

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Chastity is the crown and glory of a woman. The most profligate of men love modesty in the sex, at the very time they are forming plots to destroy it in a particular object.

Driven by petty ambition, we serve only ourselves. St. Josemaria put it well: "Those who are 'ambitious,' with small, personal, miserable ambitions, cannot understand that the friends of God should seek to achieve something through a spirit of service and without such'ambition.' " We should never confuse Christian humility and modesty with a will to underachieve.

The modest truth I speak to thee. If Man, that microcosmic fool, can see Himself a whole so frequently, Part of the Part am I, once All, in primal Night,— Part of the Darkness which brought forth the Light, The haughty Light, which now disputes the space, And claims of Mother Night her ancient place.

Astfel se deschide mugurul iubirii în întreaga sa frumuse?e ?i modestie. Mi se p?rea c? o prim?var? întreag? ?i-ar fi scuturat deodat? florile peste mine.

La sencillez y la inocencia no saben apreciar su sagrado valor. No saben que la modestia y la humildad son supremos dones de la generosa naturaleza .

Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och, well, in that case. Anthony: That's quite low enough, my dear... Roslynn: I was only trying to help, Anthony: Commendable, but we want the chap to ogle you, not bust his breeches.

The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

Undoubtedly the dress of a virtuous and godly woman must differ from that of a strumpet.

We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.

Not to dwell on this, let us here remember that on the whole subject of religion one rule of modesty and soberness is to be observed, and it is this, in obscure matters not to speak or think, or even long to know, more than the Word of God has delivered.

There was no way I was gonna walk around this place with my dork hanging out!

Wherefore we hold that we ought to introduce only those things which we have described above, and which are adapted to the humble character of our profession and the nature of the climate, that the chief thing about our dress maybe not the novelty of the garb, which might give some offence to men of the world, but its honourable simplicity.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.