Modesty Quotes
412 quotes by 292 authors
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He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.
— Unknown Author
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There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
— John Dryden
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Modesty and chastity are twins
— Anna Brownell Jameson
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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays…
— Auguste Rodin
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One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the…
— Joseph Joubert
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A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty…
— J. B. Priestley
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Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with…
— Nathanael Emmons
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Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily…
— Thomas of Villanova
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A clean and well-cared for appearance should be maintained. Hair styles should be clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles. Mens' hair should be trimmed above…
— Harold B. Lee
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But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my…
— John Heilpern
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
— Honore de Balzac
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Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds…
— William Hazlitt
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The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see…
— William Hazlitt
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In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the…
— Charles Krauthammer
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