Modesty Quotes
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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
— Maya Angelou
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
— Tariq Ramadan
Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.
— Machado De Assis
Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.
— William Shakespeare
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
— Major Taylor
Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.
— Francois Rabelais
I have no concept of modesty anymore.
— Margot Robbie
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
— Tony Dungy
That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
— Marcus Aurelius
Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.
— William Shakespeare
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
— Oliver Herford
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
— Winston S. Churchill
I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.
— Julian Baggini
I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.
— Charles Richet
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
— Bill Vaughan
Modesty is an excellent quality, honey. Don't lose that.
— Will Fetters
Modesty is the highest elegance
— Coco Chanel
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
— William Hazlitt
Honor modesty more than your life.
— Aeschylus
The thunder of false modesty was deafening.
— Sebastian Faulks
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
— Joseph Addison
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
— Louis Kronenberger
Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can't resolve, or, dissolve.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.
— Wendy Shalit
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
— Sarah Fielding
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
— Jules Renard
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
— William Shakespeare
Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
— D.H. Lawrence
In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
— Wyndham Lewis
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
— Joseph Addison
Love knows nothing of modesty.
— Honore De Balzac
To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy. TM-ST-95
— Kahlil Gibran
Is your modesty worth death?
— Skye Callahan
Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.
— Fanny Kemble
To the devil with false modesty.
— Stephen King
Modesty, not temper.
— George Eliot
Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.
— Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits?
Only to ugly people — Cassandra Clare
Only to ugly people — Cassandra Clare
Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".
— Ron Suskind
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
— George Washington
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.
— William Shenstone
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
— Thomas Huxley
Modesty is the key to success
— Paul The Apostle
Modesty and dew love the shade.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
— Joseph Joubert
In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.
— Jose Saramago
There was something immodest about her modesty: it announced itself.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
— Honore De Balzac
A small ego equals A BIG HEART - Manprit Kaur
— Manprit Kaur
We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
— Janet Morris
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
— Demades
There is a proud modesty in merit.
— John Dryden
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
— Erich Maria Remarque
Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.
— Andy Paula
I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.
— Jackie Gleason
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
— Joseph Addison
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
— Paulo Coelho
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way to merit that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties.
— Lord Chesterfield
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
— Franz Grillparzer
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
— Lord Chesterfield
Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.
— Paulo Coelho
Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but yourself.
— Meredith Duran
Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
— Yasuhiro Konishi
Such modesty and shame in a whore! Just
— Pauline Reage