Modesty Quotes
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.
Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.
Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.
With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.