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
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
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
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
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 to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Modesty is invisibility, said Aunt Lydia. Never forget it. To be seen – to be seen – is to be – her… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“I took a look out the window before I left the room, though, to see how all the perverts were doing, but… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub;… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
In England, we're brought up to think 'don't get too big for your boots.' We prize modesty. I'd never fly into Heathrow… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I go to therapy once a week, that helps a lot. I have a really supportive family. I have two little kids,… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? — Horace Copy Share Image
To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Dear Sister,even though a man is responsible for his gaze, you are responsible for what you give him to gaze at. Guard… — Anas Copy Share Image
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.” — Andy Paula Copy Share Image
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Is there such a thing as natural modesty? Wisest is she who knows she does not know... True insight comes from within.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“I'm a duck farmer. Am I the world's best duck farmer? Probably not, but there's no official ranking, and I'm a modest… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
