Quotes About Modesty

Sexiness today is not about having a perfect body and wearing a tight mini skirt; it's about what you don't show that's truly sexy.

I hate tight, tight stuff showing every line. I want to be sick when people are in Lycra.

I've always liked the really short dresses that are tight up top and poofy at the bottom.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

People often attain and hold power within an organization by downplaying their qualifications. "We gain status more readily, and more reliably, by acting just a little less deserving than we actually are.

I pray God to keep me from being proud.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

You don't have to keep thanking me. I'm not Mother Teresa.

A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

We [England] have become all Billy Big Time and become too big for our boots, and yet we have got nothing to shout about

Don't make your kids look hot and dirty and sexy when they're 5-years old! It's really not the place or the time. You're about 11 years early.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

Es r?kojos k? man ir vislab?k. Un vislab?k ir b?t vienk?ršam. Pavisam, pavisam vienk?ršam. Un, kad vajag ko ?pašu, tam j?b?t pavisam, pavisam ?pašam.

Vive usted prácticamente como un monje, su casa es de una enorme austeridad, su dormitorio parece la celda de un trapense, realmente es de una sobriedad extraordinaria.

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

Humility is much more profound than honesty about our problems or looking at the ground when we speak. It's about dependency and childlike trust, and it doesn't contain a whiff of self-righteousness or defensiveness.

But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall and into the temple.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

As a general rule, it is highly desirable that ladies should keep their temper: a woman when she storms always makes herself ugly, and usually ridiculous also. There is nothing so odious to man as a virago. Though Theseus loved an Amazon, he showed his love but roughly, and from the time of Theseus downward, no man ever wished to have his wife remarkable rather for forward prowess than retiring gentleness. A low voice is an excellent thing in woman.

There was a quiet, even composure about her, always lightened by the brightness of her modest eyes, which seemed to tell him of some mysterious world within, which was like the unseen loveliness that one fancies to be hidden within the bosom of distant mountains. There