Modesty Quotes · Page 15

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts.

— Stephen Vizinczey

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

— Marcus Aurelius

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the…

— Maya Angelou

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

— Adam Grant

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

— Erich Maria Remarque

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence…

— Marcus Aurelius

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

— Paulo Coelho

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

A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she…

— Dannah Gresh

By the virtue of modesty the devout person governs all his exterior acts. With good reason, then, does St. Paul recommend this…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should…

— Bruce R. McConkie

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of…

— Gustave Flaubert

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so…

— Andre Gide

True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where…

— William Cowper

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity.…

— Rumi

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

— Joseph Addison

“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

“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”

— Albert Einstein

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

“Indeed the impracticality of the burka marginalizes its wearers, and a society that allows such marginalization risks being perceived as dysfunctional.”

— Farzana Hassan

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

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

— Elisabeth Elliot

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

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

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

— Wilfred Burchett

“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”

— Anonymous

If you want to be treated like a lady, quit dressing like a hoe but dress like a lady.

— Tony Nguyen

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

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

— Julian Baggini

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

Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

— Yasuhiro Konishi

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, 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