Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent. — Robin Standefer Copy Share Image
“Modesty serves little purpose. Other than to feed one’s insecurities by inviting more praise, that is. I have no need.” — Nick Stephenson Copy Share Image
The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
“Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“As Victorian-era prudishness set in, some upstanding citizens also took to putting coverlets over the instrument’s legs out of an exaggerated sense… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
You were created as a masterpiece and you are one of God's expressions of beauty. Short, tall, thin, thick, freckles, big eyes,… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His… — Kylie Bisutti Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
You must have the modesty of saying, this is a bloody good idea but I probably won't believe it in five years'… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“Indeed the impracticality of the burka marginalizes its wearers, and a society that allows such marginalization risks being perceived as dysfunctional.” — Farzana Hassan Copy Share Image
Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it. — Yasuhiro Konishi Copy Share Image
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty. — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to be treated like a lady, quit dressing like a hoe but dress like a lady. — Tony Nguyen Copy Share Image
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for… — Nam June Paik Copy Share Image
If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I will say I was a lot bigger as Superman. A lot bigger. I'm not saying how much. It's modesty about the… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can be the most talented, the most intelligent or the most successful man in the world, but if you're not a… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering… — Laozi Copy Share Image
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We will unconditionally worship Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, partly because we approve of their well-mannered modesty. They are non-threatening, good hearted… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
![“My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.” quote by Arthur Conan Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2a2/arthur-conan-doyle-273_agree_my-dear-watson-said-sherlock-holmes-i-ca_760560.jpg)
