Ability Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

— Remy de Gourmont

Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

— Honore de Balzac

False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.

— Tony Dungy

“But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one's…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued…

— William Hazlitt

Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.

— Tariq Ramadan

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

— Lactantius

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by…

— William Hazlitt