Modesty Quotes

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

Modesty should accompany youth.

Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.

Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

Modesty, not temper.

When you know who you are, you won’t have false modesty

He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.

Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time, " she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

Modesty is fear.

An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.