Amiable Quote by William Shenstone

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

— William Gilmore Simms

Modesty needs to come from the heart.

— David K. Bernard

Modesty is the path to Favour.

— Desmond Fouche

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

— Honore de Balzac

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

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

— Grace Paley

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

— Jonathan Swift

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

— Augustus William Hare

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts.

— Stephen Vizinczey