Children Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

— Maya Angelou

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of…

— Aristotle

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Lactantius

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

— Honore de Balzac

Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

— Maya Angelou

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

— Ada Leverson

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

— Tariq Ramadan

Modesty is virtue which enhances charm of ones personality & get up.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an…

— Mark Twain

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

— Maya Angelou