Modesty Quotes · Page 16

“True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

— Conrad Aiken

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

— Douglas William Jerrold

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

— Paul Gauguin

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable…

— Wyndham Lewis

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

— Roald Dahl

A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her…

— Ellen G. White

“I'm a good knitter, and I'm proud of it. I see no point in being modest about things you know you do…

— Louise Dickinson Rich

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The way you have decided to present yourself to others can telegraph your character, it can signal modesty, respect for others, a…

— Rick Owens

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our…

— Kirkpatrick Sale

When it comes to the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, I've never heard any stories of them drinking or drugging or causing problems in…

— AJ Chilson

He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton,…

— Joshua Chamberlain

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our…

— Karl Popper

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness…

— William Law

“Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more than enough.”

— G.A. Aiken

So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape…

— William C. Bryant

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

— Samuel Johnson

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Modesty is good. But take your credit. You can't always count on other people to offer it.”

— Alex Irvine

Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you…

— Robert Kiyosaki

How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative…

— Tan France

Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

— Anonymous

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

— Jean Rostand

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of…

— Honore de Balzac

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think…

— William Shakespeare

Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in…

— Maya Angelou

True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of…

— Ellen G. White

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty

— Jean De La Bruyere

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

— William Shakespeare

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Louis Kronenberger