Quotes about Modesty
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
— Thomas Jefferson
Your wisdom should be without pride.
— St. Augustine
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
— CS Lewis
A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
— AW Tozer
According to an eastern fable, the rose was white when God created it, but when, as it unfolded, it felt Adam's eyes upon it, it blushed in modesty and turned pink.
— Victor Hugo
The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.
— Victor Hugo
Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.
— Milan Kundera
In sanctification, there is never, under any circumstances, any room for self-pride or self-praise.
— GC Berkouwer
Showing off is the fools's idea of glory.
— Bruce Lee
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
— Ambrose of Milan
I don't want to take off my shirt and roam topless all the time, just for the heck of it.
— Kunal Khemu
In an age of million-dollar mansions for God, it's hard to imagine that our God prefers tents.
— Shane Claiborne