Quotes about Modesty
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
— Charles Spurgeon
It is always the secure who are humble.
— GK Chesterton
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
— Tertullian
women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.
— Martin Luther
Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.
— Publilius Syrus
He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
— Thomas Jefferson
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real
— Thomas Merton
Humility was never a loser.
— Thomas Watson
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.
— Wendell Berry
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self it is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
— Charles Spurgeon
The modesty that theology needs is the recognition that we cannot rationally comprehend God.
— Hans Boersma