Modesty Quotes

412 quotes by 301 authors

Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains… — Robert Macfarlane
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and… — Michel de Montaigne
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance… — U Thant
Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable. — Margaret Atwood
Modesty is humility expressed in dress. — C. J. Mahaney
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it… — Heinrich Heine
Modesty needs to come from the heart. — David K. Bernard
A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a… — Yi-Fu Tuan
Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of… — Benjamin Hoff
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them. — Baltasar Gracian
Of lies, false modesty is the most decent. — Nicolas Chamfort
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in… — Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it. — Joseph Addison
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought… — William Hazlitt
Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep… — Nouman Ali Khan
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.
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor

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