Quotes About Modesty

Humility is the courage to be honest with yourself and those around you.

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy.

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth" (Prov. 27:2).

Greatness is humility.

A gentleman does not boast about his junk.

Es bien sabido que los hombres más notables son también los más modestos, los menos preocupados por la opinión que uno tiene de ellos.

they who are wise shall be humble.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Don't get caught in the trap of believing you have to know everything about everything

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

I refer those actions which work out the good of the agent to courage, and those which work out the good of others to nobility. Therefore temperance, sobriety, and presence of mind in danger, etc., are species of courage; but modesty, clemency, etc., are species of nobility.

No pienses todavía en esas cosas de remontarte mucho, que eres más pelado que un huevo—le dijo ella—

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.