Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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 rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within… — Boyd K. Packer 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
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
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
“Modesty is good. But take your credit. You can't always count on other people to offer it.” — Alex Irvine Copy Share Image
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I'd get a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom,… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have… — Euripides Copy Share Image
A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Im not Superman. So I cant say anything big like Ill protect everyone on Earth. Im not a modest guy who will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton,… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving… — Max Shulman Copy Share Image
Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The way you have decided to present yourself to others can telegraph your character, it can signal modesty, respect for others, a… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
