Modesty Quotes

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

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.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

A modest man never talks of himself.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.

I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

There is a proud modesty in merit.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?

The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His eyes, but also in the eyes of others. You can't airbrush that.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.