Quotes about Modesty

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.

The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.

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.

In sanctification, there is never, under any circumstances, any room for self-pride or self-praise.

Showing off is the fools's idea of glory.

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.

I don't want to take off my shirt and roam topless all the time, just for the heck of it.

In an age of million-dollar mansions for God, it's hard to imagine that our God prefers tents.

Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.

Character Ethic as the foundation of success - things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule. Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is representative of that literature. It is, basically, the story of one man's effort to integrate certain principles and habits deep within his character.

Humility is the mother of all virtues.

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.